Sorry, I have missed your earlier correspondence but have you tried
/etc/init.d/xdm start
as super-user?
Ian.
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote:
> Don't think a "reset" will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal
> behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though.
>
> As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and
> be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the
> last sentence of my previous message.
>
> I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the
> borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys
> back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only
> thing that works is X.
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:38PM -0400, TheKman wrote:
> > Did you try typing reset. Or just typing shutdown -r now. Even if you
> > can't see it a lot of the times the computers sees what you are typing.
> >
> > Ian Eure wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely
> > > with
> > > -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I
> > > try
> > > a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode & such. No
> > > dice.
> > > I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any
> > > suggestions
> > > on how to get it back without a reboot?
> > >
> >
>
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