Hi, I am stumped...
I have two machines: 1) SVGA: chipset: cyberblade, and 2) S3Virge. On machine 1, when I switch from X to console, all of the 'box' characters are corrupted. (I am refering to the pretty outline characters that you get after typing: make menuconfig or the arrows that occur after enabling threading when using mutt). The characters are fine before starting X, but become a random set of bits after starting X and switching back to console. The alphanumeric characters [a|A..z|Z] & [0..9] are unchanged. On machine 2, updated with the same set of packages as 1), the 'box' characters do not become corrupted. Typing 'reset' under terminal mode doesn't help. I have also tried reinstalling packages such as ncurses. Could half of the display controller's character map have become corrupted (ie hardware bug / design stupidity)? I am using xfree-3.3.5-2 (potato). Does anyone have any ideas? Regards, Mark.
