From: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
  To  : David T. Leimbach <dleimbac@falcon.lhup.edu>
  Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:53:37 -0700

Re: Stange modes

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 04:57:16PM -0400, David T. Leimbach wrote:
> I have a problem with KGI.  When I fbset -g 640 480 640 480 4
> I should get a 16 color mode right?
> Instead I get a very strange mode in which I cannot see anything I type but
> colors in horizontal lines that look like overlapped giant fonts.  I believe
> the mode I requested to be a standard VGA mode.  (I will have to look) And I am
> quite sure my card supports is as mode 12h.  Any Ideas?  Or do I have to start
> writing a Trident driver now.  :)


This is exactly what I'm getting with xggi if I attempt to set a mode.. 
If you come up with a solution, please share it.  I'm a matrox user but
xggi is doing this with the fbdev and svgalib targets too.

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