From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 13:55:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA23589 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23572 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id UAA03707 ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:54:25 +0100 (BST) To: Terry Lambert cc: alexei@albion.loach.org (Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Video annoyance In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:33:52 PDT." <199604220333.UAA16537@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:54:25 +0100 Message-ID: <3704.830375665@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote in message ID <199604220333.UAA16537@phaeton.artisoft.com>: > > Is there any way of jogginh the video hardware into switching back to text > > mode if an X server dies or is killed for one reason or another, and doesn' > t > > exit cleanly? I don't like having to telnet in from my other boxes at home > > when this problem occurs; if there's a fix that I could run, a pointer to i > t > > would be greatly appreciated. Please cc' my email address on your answer, > so > > procmail doesn't throw it to aa file that I end up reading only next month. > :) > > Restart the X server and shut it down normally. Has never worked for me, as the X server records the state of the video card when invoked, and the state is, of course, in this case total garbage... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.