[ProgSoc] XFree86 video problems

["Patrick Kennedy" <chibagu@nospam.hotmail.com>]

hello all

just made a venture into Linux, installing Slackware and various other 
bits including XFree86. 

I have a problem with the video configuration. I have an old IBM VGA 
monitor and a Tseng Labs ET4000 card, and when i start X (or XF86Setup) 
the screen temporarily swaps to some garbled blue screen and swaps back 
to the grey X screen witht he mouse cursor. From here i can't do 
anything, no keyboard and no mouse buttons work.

I have all the "generic" drivers and screens in the XF86Config file.

Using X -probeonly reveals that X is expecting a "screen" section for an 
"accel" driver....but the ET4000 doesn't require this, unlike the 
ET4000/W32...but this may be irrelevant or a totally different problem

Firstly, how can i get out of this broke X session without rebooting?

Next can anyone point me in the right direction? Is it the monitor, the 
video card, or is it the XF86Config file?

thanks oh mighty Linux-heads

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