From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 20:37:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA05414 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05409 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA16537; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:33:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604220333.UAA16537@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Video annoyance To: alexei@albion.loach.org (Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:33:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604220216.TAA28699@albion.loach.org> from "Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov" at Apr 21, 96 07:16:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 it > 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. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.