Comment 2 for bug 15300

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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:02:36 +0200
From: Hartmut Koptein <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#93991: fbset: fbset no longer works with xfree-4.0.2

> Package: fbset
> Version: 2.1-6
> Severity: normal
>
> The subject says it all: after upgrading my X server (XF86_Mach64
> in the package xserver-mach64-3.3.6) to xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-7, the fbset
> command no longer works. I get only garbage on the screen. The file
> /etc/fb.modes is the same as before: the mode being used is the "TXncd"
> mode which I have created specially for my fixed frequency TX NCD monitor
> The "bug" of course can come from the xserver side or perhaps an
> incompatibility between the new X server and this version of fbset.

You don't use the framebuffer for X11, so it is for the console. On console,
fbset works perfectly, it hasn't an dependency on XF if you don't use the
framebuffer entry in the XF86Config(-4).
A 'little' garbage on the console screen comes from time to time from a newer kernel,
not from X11 or a xserver version.
I use also two ati cards, a 3d range II+ and a ati-128, both works.
Please check your kernel settings.

Greetings,

   Hartmut