From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 5:28:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3D514C12 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 05:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990920122818.MWHQ13005.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE> for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 05:28:18 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:20:52 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <11347.990920@home.com> To: FreeBSD questions Subject: virtual consoles (F1 - F4) & X-Window System Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently bothered the list to find out why my X server (3.3.5) was turning my monitor off and LO! The List was Helpful! Thank you very much. Now I have another (minor) problem in that whenever I run X (i.e. every time I boot FreeBSD. I haven't changed the initrunlevel yet but that's coming) I get it with no problems but if I shut it down or try to switch to one of the text-only VC's () my monitor again turns off. I can overcome this by typing (as any logged in user) `vidcontrol 80x43` (w/o the `s of course) and my screen comes back to life in 80x43 mode. How can I either make all my VC's default to 80x43 or make my 80x25 mode work after starting X? Also I cannot seem to change to any of the 132x* modes as vidcontrol complains that the device can't handle it. This is a most minor annoyance since X works but I would like to know if/how I can set my machine up to do some of the 132x modes. My system is FreeBSD-3.2 (I coulda swore I chose STABLE, but I think a uname shows RELEASE. The same?) X is 3.3.5 running the KDE WM. My video card is a 16mb Voodoo Banshee and my monitor is a Daytek 17". (I bought it used so I have no idea what it's defined capabilities and ranges are.) TIA -- Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message