Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:20:52 -0400 From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: virtual consoles (F1 - F4) & X-Window System Message-ID: <11347.990920@home.com>
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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 (<ctl><alt><F1>) 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 <mailto:received@email.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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