Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:50:35 +0100 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010316195035.A6106@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Unreadable display during install of 7.1
On Fri, Mar 16, Bob Allen wrote:
> I have just successfully installed SuSe 7.1 on an Ultra/10 with
> Creator 3D. During the install there are a couple of places where
> the display colors become very faint with respect to the display
> background. The just barely readable after a lot of fiddling with
> the brightness and contrast controls. The two places are at the
> point where I receive the message "Now booting your system - OK"
> and at the point where I receive the message "Your system is now
> installed. You may now logon as 'xyz'. - OK". At both points the
> display goes into linemode and becomes almost unreadable. I also
> see it when I do a "shutdown -h now". How do I get these messages
> in white on black?
A good question. This is a known problem with Creator3D and Elite3D
cards and XFree86 4.0.x. I donīt have this problems with my Creator,
but with the Elite, too. There is no fix and it looks like nobody
is working on it. So, always work in graphic mode, or never start X11.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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