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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LEAVING X -> Corrupted Textmode WHY ??????
- Keywords: X Textmode
- Message-ID: <28iVwB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 17:34:24 EST
- References: <1993Jan4.193118.12572@news.uiowa.edu>
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- miranda@suspicion (Johann Miranda) writes:
- > In article <1i94raINNnds@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> jansen@bruichladdic
- > >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 ....
- >
- > 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).
-
- Or, if you already have a current vgalib, just write a program which uses
- vgalib to reset text mode (look at vgatest.c, the last line of main() does
- it and your main() need only contain that line). (I called mine "textmode",
- although as it turned out my problem wasn't related to this.) Edit "startx"
- to run this program after "xinit" is done.
-
- ++Brandon
-
- He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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