[ltp] T21 -- RH 7.1 no MPEGs with xmms

[Friedemann Baitinger]

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On Mon, 7 May 2001, D. Sen wrote:

> Friedemann Baitinger wrote: 
> 
> > I agree. And to complete the list of problems: Once in X you can't
> > switch to consoles anymore. More presicely, once you switch to any of
> > the consoles all you get is a black screen. The same is true when X is
> > terminated. I have just verified that this still happens on a freshly
> > installed RedHat 7.1.
> >
> 
> Well, the latest BIOS seems to have improved the situation a bit with regard to this
> bug. Markus Alt posted ( http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/archives/200103/msg00170.html )
> that he got better results by enabling screen expansion during boot time. This
> helped until you connected an external monitor (at which point you couldnt get the
> virtual consoles again). However, with the latest BIOS.......I have had the virtual
> consoles up for a week.

Good point, I had seen Markus' posting but never followed up. I have now
just tried both configurations "HV Expansion" Disabled and Enabled and
guess what: With expansion _enabled_ I get the black screens and with
expansion _disabled_ I can terminate X and find myself back on a working
console. Of course it is a small console then but still better than just
a black screen.

Can you provide some details with respect to updating the BIOS? Where
can I get it? Which version do I need? How can it be applied safely?


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Friedemann Baitinger      fb@baiti.net       http://baiti.net/fb/
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