[ale] xterm weirdness

Brian J. Dowd bdowd at dentfirst.com
Fri Sep 8 13:07:39 EDT 2000


Had the same problem. Switched to konsole. Problem not relevant anymore.
I then downloaded some updates from helixcode. It fixed the fg=bg color problem
in the xterm window.
Yes, I *would* be happier if I knew *why* it's ok now...
-Brian

> Hello all,
>
> I ran into an oddball problem.  I was trying to put a new NIC in my machine,
> and was having trouble, so I decided to reinstall RH 6.1.  When I was done,
> the gdm login screen had black boxes where there was any text.  If I logged in,
> all the text was the same.  Xterms were fg on fg color, no matter what I tried.
>
> Switching to the virtual console, I managed to find the no_accel flag in the
> graphocs/monitor XF86Config file entries the fixed the gdm/Gnome problem, but
> I still have the xterms fg on fg.  I'm using an SiS 5597/5598 graphics board
> (built-in to the mobo) and an NEC 4FG monitor.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
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