From 5c0c3b40c1bf4d2380e702bd7c3fc8903e802393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Roitzsch <mroi@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:01:18 +0000
Subject: adding an FAQ entry on the blue screen problem

CVS patchset: 6942
CVS date: 2004/09/06 14:01:18
---
 doc/faq/faq.sgml | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/faq/faq.sgml')

diff --git a/doc/faq/faq.sgml b/doc/faq/faq.sgml
index b5c619b42..35a2a65c8 100644
--- a/doc/faq/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/faq/faq.sgml
@@ -1444,7 +1444,21 @@
     </para>
     <para>
      Another possibility is that you using a buggy Xv driver, see the next
-     question.
+     questions.
+    </para>
+   </sect2>
+   
+   <sect2 id="bluescreen">
+    <title>I only see a blue (or green or black) video image most of the time.</title>
+    <para>
+     You are either watching a very boring video (just kidding) or you are
+     suffering from a bug in the Xorg 6.7 implementation of X11.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     The workaround is to add the line
+     <programlisting>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"</programlisting>
+     in the <varname>Device</varname> section of your X server configuration (usually
+     <filename>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename> or <filename>/etc/X11/XF86Config</filename>).
     </para>
    </sect2>
    
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