Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 21:49:54 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: perlsta@sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reset screen hardware? Message-ID: <199708081949.VAA02873@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808125605.680B-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> from Alfred Perlstein at "Aug 8, 97 12:59:19 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In reply to Alfred Perlstein who wrote:
>
> Last night X crashed on me, i thought my machine needed to be rebooted,
> but first i tried to telnet into it, i was able and i killed X and had to
> restart X twice to get it to work, well everything seemed fine after that,
> however my Text consols were all fubar'd and i had no idea how to reset
> the text part of my display to i wound up rebooting anyway.
>
> What could i have done to reset the text screens?
Well, not much actually, UNLESS you have intimate knowledge, and the
means to use it in a program, about your video chip.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
..
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199708081949.VAA02873>