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From: graichen@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Q: dark screen after X11R6
Date: 13 Mar 1995 08:57:16 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Berni Ernst (berni@troia.rhein-neckar.de) wrote:
: when I leave X11R6 on my FreeBSD 2.0 the screen (each screen)
: is totally dark. The onlx thing I can do is typing blindly the
: reboot command. Then the machine starts news with fine text on
: the screen.
: machine is an older 386/40 with 8 mes of RAM and a ISA ET4000 card.
: Can anybody help ?

i can't help you but i get the same problem with a trident 8900cl card - t

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