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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: no screen after X exits
- Message-ID: <b!mn=fj.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 02:15:18 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <BRTMAC.92Sep2101013@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In article <BRTMAC.92Sep2101013@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
- >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.
- If in your /etc/ttys file, your reference your console as device
- console the system gets confused as to who owns the console because
- X access the device vga.
- To avoid problems with use vga in your /etc/ttys instead of "console"
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- Amancio Hasty
- >
- >Is there a program out there that resets the video card to standard
- >80x25 text mode?
- >
- >++Brett;
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