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- From: miranda@suspicion (Johann Miranda)
- Subject: Re: LEAVING X -> Corrupted Textmode WHY ??????
- Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.193118.12572@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:31:18 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
- Keywords: X Textmode
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- In article <1i94raINNnds@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> jansen@bruichladdich.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Jansen) writes:
- >Hi there ,
- >
- >Leaving X doesn't restore the Textmode .....
- >I know that this is a known problem but is this a know-solveable or a
- >know-non-solveable-problem ????
- >Maybe there exists a program, which re-init the VGA - card to their
- >initial-values ....
- >
- >Maybe somebody know this and email it
- >
- >Thanks in advance
- >
- > TOM
- >
-
- Attention! All of you people out there with a Trident card and the SLS
- distribution!
- If you are experiencing this problem, the possible fix might be (Many
- thanks to William O'Connel, wto@ihlpx.att.com for pointing it out to me):
-
- ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu
- got to /attic/sources/libs
- grab the vgalib with date May 26.
- Careful with it. It will eat up the vgalib from SLS if you just untar it.
- So rename it and uncompress it and untar it. Grab the runx binary (or
- recompile the thing) and stick it into /usr/bin
-
- To launch X do: runx startx ( Yes in the same line).
-
- this should do it. Enjoy linuxing!
- Adios. -JEM-
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