From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 25 22:52:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a13b146.neo.rr.com [204.210.197.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D1D1530D for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA30970; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:52:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:52:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a desirable fetaure: syscons reset utility In-Reply-To: <381417F8.1BFEB34B@we.lc.ehu.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The above sequence MIGHT work. But, sadly, it won't, in general. > > There isn't a reliable way of `resetting' video hardware once the X > > server has messed up with it. > > > > Oh, bad news. I tried that sequence of commands several times, without > any luck. Well, we will have to live with this problem. Fortunately, > my Xserver does not crash very often ;-) . I ran into this problem on some Linux boxes - somewhere, I found a program that saved the video card registers when it was in a "usable" mode (80x25 text) to a file, and let you restore them later... Basically, if the X server crashed, telnet into the dead machine, kill X, and use this program to restore the video card settings. Worked about 90% of the time, I'd guess. Is something like this available on FreeBSD (or need to be written?) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message