Bug#234342: xfree86-common: X doesn't restore proper text mode on {exit,console switch} i have installed svgatextmode [1], so that my console is set to a non-standard 100x37 text mode during system initialization
Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.3.0-2
Severity: normal
i start X without any display manager, using startx directly from the
shell prompt
when i exit X, or i go back to the text mode console, using Alt-Fn, the
text mode is not properly restored, and i look at a mess of scrambled
chars in 80x25 mode; i cannot see what i type and i have to run manually
svgatextmode to have my consoles in working shape
of course, this happened after the 4.2 -> 4.3 XFree upgrade of Feb 19, while
i had no problems with restoring text mode using 4.2
feel free to redirect this bug report against a different package, as
i'm not so sure that it's xfree86-common that causes the problem
ciao
gb
[1] dpkg -l svgatextmode
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii svgatextmode 1.9-10 Run higher resolution text modes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.6.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
-- debconf information:
xfree86-common/experimental_packages:
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