Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!
I use KDM, the KDE xdm variant. It does not manage my local display.
X is not the problem. X works fine. I just can't get my text console
back.
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 02:44:22PM +0100, IH McKeag wrote:
> Sorry, I have missed your earlier correspondence but have you tried
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm start
>
> as super-user?
>
> Ian.
>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote:
>
> > Don't think a "reset" will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal
> > behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though.
> >
> > As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and
> > be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the
> > last sentence of my previous message.
> >
> > I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the
> > borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys
> > back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only
> > thing that works is X.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:38PM -0400, TheKman wrote:
> > > Did you try typing reset. Or just typing shutdown -r now. Even if you
> > > can't see it a lot of the times the computers sees what you are typing.
> > >
> > > Ian Eure wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely with
> > > > -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I try
> > > > a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode & such. No dice.
> > > > I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any suggestions
> > > > on how to get it back without a reboot?
> > > >
> > >
> >
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| ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and |
| manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. |
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: raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors :
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