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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: no screen after X exits
- Date: 2 Sep 92 10:10:13
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Sep2101013@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- I'm having a problem with having no screen after X exits. This is really
- annoying when something is wrong and X doesn't start since one of the first
- things it does is set the graphic mode on the card. I have to reboot to
- get the screen back and then I loose any information I had as to why X
- didn't start.
-
- My configuration is:
-
- 386sx/16
- 8M RAM
- 7120A Maxtor IDE
- 2 com ports
- Sigma Legend 1M VGA (ET-4000 chipset)
- AOC CM-336 SVGA monitor
-
- I can get X to run fine and can even get at the keyboard by doing a
- 'startx;sleep 999999' (anyone want to tell me why this works?). I am
- planning on running XDM in the future, but I want to get X to where it
- actually works like I want it before doing this.
-
- Is there a program out there that resets the video card to standard
- 80x25 text mode?
-
- ++Brett;
-