Re: bttv and mga

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:28:05 +0200


Adam Sulmicki wrote:

> .. not for long though. I was able to use ALt-arrows to switch between consoles.
> Seemed to be ok. After that I did start X, at that time the mga console went blank.
> I did switch back to first console, and tried to use Alt-Arrows. I ended up
> with getting tty5 on my vga screen (before starting X I used to have it at
> mga screen). At that point machine locked up solid. No ping reply, no keyboard
> activity. The mga console has been blank all time since I did start X.

That seems to be a problem with X. For unknown reasons to me the SVGA
X server seems to poke around in the MDA io space.

Tom

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