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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: reset screen hardware?
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"
To: perlsta@sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 21:49:54 +0200 (MEST)
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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.

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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