Re: how to reset the console?
On %M 0, Rob Mahurin wrote
> OK, here is story to date:
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> 8. I go insane with frustration at the whole situation and reboot.
>
> 9. Rebooting gives me my pretty high-res console back --- and
> SVGATextMode promptly switches it back to Plane Jane 80x25.
>
If you set it up, it will do better/as you specify; this is just the
default. If you didn't configure it for your chipset, this could be
why it didn't work.
> 10. Remove svgatextmode. Scream twice. Reboot again. Normal. Much
> better. Insanity fading to normal levels.
>
> Now that I've obliterated my problem (destruction is so satisfying),
> I'm curious: could I have used some derivative of vidmode(8) and not
> had to reboot? Or does that only apply on the next reboot? And if
> so, is there any way in the base system to "hot-switch" the video
> mode? I intend to learn something from this experience or die trying.
>
If it messed up and *then* you started X, you're probably hosed unless you
actually quit X. Your X server doesn't know much about setting or
restoring text modes; it just saves the state it finds when you start X,
and restores it when you quit or swap to a text mode vt. I'd have thought
you'd do better with svgatextmode, if text mode worked when you started X.
John P.
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