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> > 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.

Well setting a text mode is in the bios, but of course FreeBSD bypasses
the bios, so i'm sure it has some routine somewhere to clear the screen
and set up the 80x25 text screen...

if it could do that then i could take down X, refresh 80x25, the restart X
and everything would be cool :)

Alfred