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- From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: X11 Won't Return to Text Mode
- Message-ID: <SCT.92Nov9165925@garay.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:59:25 GMT
- References: <Nov.4.07.12.16.1992.20165@pilot.njin.net>
- <Nov06.194729.79509@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland
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- In-Reply-To: dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu's message of 6 Nov 92 19:47:29 GMT
-
- In article <Nov06.194729.79509@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner) writes:
- > Nntp-Posting-Host: jenkins.lance.colostate.edu
-
- > In article <Nov.4.07.12.16.1992.20165@pilot.njin.net>, ktompkin@pilot.njin.net (Ken Tompkins) writes:
- > |> Just to add my name to the list....I recently got
- > |> X11 working -- an Icelandic Saga in length -- and
- > |> when I exit from it the screen turns black and I
- > |> have to reboot.
- ...
- > Same problem - similar setup. Trident 8900c seems to be the problem.
- > Any solutions, anyone?
-
- Add me to the list - only with a Tseng ET400 Hicolor (unbranded "vga
- ultra") card. Returning to 80x25 text mode works but corrupts several
- font characters; returning to any other text mode doesn't restore
- timings correctly resulting in unreadable flicker (my monitor has
- fixed frequencies and cannot synch to the mode left by X11).
-
- Btw, my old graphics card - a Trident 8900c v4 - restored text
- perfectly (although X was unable to program interlace correctly on the
- older version of the chipset, so I couldn't use the 1024x768 mode).
- So it's not a problem with the X setup (X11v1.1 running under 0.97pl6,
- for what it's worth).
-
- Oh, one other thing. The only reason I was ever using text mode was to
- see kernel printk messages, so I hacked together a 10 line syslogd to
- pipe them to /dev/console for xconsole to display - works fine. I
- know HJ has incorporated the syslog.c logging functions into libc4.2,
- but does anyone know whether there is a proper (official?) syslogd
- linux port anywhere? I've got the bsd source but there's no point in
- reinventing the wheel if there is already a standard Linux version out
- there in netland.
-
- Thanks,
- Stephen Tweedie.
- ---
- Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
- Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
-