A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone > pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I > frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or > ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to reboot,
That happens with some combinations of video cards and X servers. For example: * Matrox G200 AGP with XF86_SVGA -> no problem text->X and back * S3 ViRGE with XF86_SVGA -> same problem you have * S3 ViRGE with XF86_S3V -> no problem text->X and back (on the S3 it might be the other way around - it's been a while since I've tried) Without knowing more about your computer, the only thing I can say is: Don't do that! Sorry. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
