hp 2133, xorg and broken VTs

[Xavier Bachelot]

Leonie Herzberg wrote:
> hi! i've just got a hp 2133 laptop computer with a via chrome
> graphics card. now i tried to get gnuffy to run on it (which is some
> arch linux fork you probably don't know)
> 
> i tried both the vesa and the openchrome video driver which both had
> the "nice" effect of making my VTs unreadable after X has been
> started. which means, if i use the vesa driver, i get giant dancing
> pixel clouds instead of letters, and, if i use the openchrome driver,
> i get green squares over the whole display (no matter if X is still
> running, or if I zapped or exited) that only reboot can recover.
> 
> X itself shows a rather usual picture (except that the fluxbox task
> bar seems to be missing if i use the openchrome driver, i have not
> yet figured out why). i basically used the xorg.conf i found on the
> gentoo wiki article about the hp2133 which is why i can't understand
> why it doesn't work. i adjusted some options that obviously didn't
> work on my system (threw errors). and, as you probably already
> assume, i have approximately no idea about what i am doing to my poor
> xorg. i would be grateful for any help :)
> 
Please update to latest openchrome trunk, the VT switch issue should be 
fixed. You shouldn't need the modeline nor to force the panel and the 
software cursor on in you're xorg conf.

Regards,
Xavier