Re: virtual consoles unresponsive
You could run savetextmode on a machine with as close a configuration
as possible, copy the files over and try it, but check the risks in
doing this, as it is a server that you don't want to reboot, let alone
crash.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:45:52 -0700, Carl D. Blake <carl@boeckeler.com> wrote:
> I did some more googling on resetting video cards and found some
> references to people who have had their video cards stop working after X
> crashed. It seems that if X doesn't quit properly it can leave the
> video card in an unusable state (at least for text mode). The solution
> is to use some scripts from svgalib called savetextmode and textmode.
> These scripts use the program restoretextmode to save the current state
> of the video cards registers in some temporary files. Later, if you
> start having a problem with your video card, you can run textmode which
> will restore the registers from the temporary files and, hopefully,
> bring the video card back into working order. Unfortunately, you have
> to run savetextmode when the video is working correctly (e.g.
> immediately after a reboot), so I haven't had a chance to try this yet.
> The system is working except for the video and I don't want to bring
> everybody down just yet, so it'll be a day or so before I get around to
> rebooting the system.
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