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Re: X exits into unreadable screen



On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:36:39PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I will look into savetextmode and 
> restoretextmode.  Do you have any idea why this would be happening, 
> though?  True, when I reboot everything goes back to normal and I can 
> work at a console again.  However, as soon as I start X again, the 
> console display gets screwed up again.  It doesn't seem like I should 
> have to use savetextmode and restoretextmode every time I want to use X.

Quite right.  I didn't catch that this was the way that X was _normally_
working for you.  May be a card configuration issue?  Maybe if you post
your graphics card and setup someone on the list will have matching
hardware and can shed light on this.

- MikeT



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