Re: X exits into unreadable screen
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
> screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of
> vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces
> more verticle white lines where the text should be.
It is likely that your SVGA registers were corrupted by X crashing in
this way. The only solutions are:
1. reboot
2. start X and live without consoles for now
If you install svgalib-bin you can use savetextmode and restoretextmode
to avoid a reboot caused by this problem in the future, but that solution
depends on your already having saved the video registers from console
mode when they were in a pristine state. See "man savetextmode" for an
explanation of this problem.
- MikeT
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Michael Touloumtzis
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