FW: console switching problem (solved!) (Kohjin Yamada Oct 13 2002)

[Leif Asbrink <leif.asbrink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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[mailto:owner-linrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kohjin Yamada
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:10 AM
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Subject: [linrad] console switching problem (solved!)


Here is good news,

The problem was solved by replacing a video card  from Matrox Millennium G400
to NVIDIA GeForce2 MX.
It runs same as Roger wrote!!!
Oh well, I didn't realize that Linrad runs in such a way, great!

Now, thanks to the todays Internet I have reached to "Linux Hardware 
Compatibility HOWTO".
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/video.html
You can see section 6.4. SVGALIB (graphics for console) where only a few 
card listed
while a bunch of boards supported in XFree86.
I've been thinking for long time I would ask to Leif someday whether Leif 
has any plan of
implementation of XFree86 so that we can take advantage of state of art Xwindows.

By the way, I have learned that svgalib's allocated virtual console number 
depends on
from where Linrad launched.
In my one of the case for example, a virtual console #7 was assigned for a 
Xserver remote
login made by a WinXP sitting besides.
In other words a display of Linrad is at virtual console #7 in Linux box 
not in WinXP, funny!

Thanks to all,

Now next for RHL 8.0, stay tuned.

Kohjin - JR1EDE

At 17:23 02/10/12 +0900, JR1EDE wrote:

Roger W3SZ wrote:
>>I use ATI Radeon AGP video card and have run with RHL 6.x, 7.0, 7.2, and
>>7.3.

Kohjin JR1EDE wrote:
>Different video card might produce different result.
>Mine is Matrox Millennium G400 32MB.





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