When I quit testsprite I end up with a blank screen and have to
press ctrl-alt-- or ctrl-alt-+ to get my desktop back. My
system is running RedHat 6.1 w/ a TNT card.–
-Nathan Smythe
“His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling
outside. Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew…”
When I quit testsprite I end up with a blank screen and have to
press ctrl-alt-- or ctrl-alt-+ to get my desktop back.
black screen? desktop background?
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec
black screen w/ mouse pointer. From the size of my mouse pointer
it looks like the resolution is getting set back to its original
state.On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, you wrote:
When I quit testsprite I end up with a blank screen and have to
press ctrl-alt-- or ctrl-alt-+ to get my desktop back.black screen? desktop background?
–
-Nathan Smythe
“His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling
outside. Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew…”
In article <84ubj9$rt3$1 at news.lokigames.com>,
Nathan Smythe writes:> On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, you wrote:
When I quit testsprite I end up with a blank screen and have to
press ctrl-alt-- or ctrl-alt-+ to get my desktop back.black screen? desktop background?
black screen w/ mouse pointer. From the size of my mouse pointer
it looks like the resolution is getting set back to its original
state.
I experienced a similar behavior on the G400 X server, after quitting SDL
applications (random pattern all over the screen). I believe this is a bug
in some X servers. This new fullscreen mode puts in light some new bugs
in VidMode itself 
–
Stephane Peter
Programmer
Loki Entertainment Software
“Microsoft has done to computers what McDonald’s has done to gastronomy”
Stephane Peter wrote:
I experienced a similar behavior on the G400 X server, after quitting SDL
applications (random pattern all over the screen). I believe this is a bug
in some X servers. This new fullscreen mode puts in light some new bugs
in VidMode itself
Raster was working on VidMode a little while ago and was pestering about
how buggy it was… The only part he said worked fine is switching
between modes already defined in XF86Config.–
Pierre Phaneuf
Ludus Design, http://ludusdesign.com/
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Gandhi