On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:49:43PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> I feel pretty silly about this ...
>
> I was playing around with some of the programs in the games directory
> and one (lincity) gave me some complaint about svga permissions. I
> said Hmmm and tried it with sudo, and it got about halfway through
> changing the video stuff and died.
>
> Now I'm stuck with a half-reset console, which makes all of my text
> VTs pretty much useless. Instead of having text characters, I have
man 1 textmode
savetextmode(1) Svgalib User Manual savetextmode(1)
NAME
savetextmode, textmode - save or restore the complete SVGA
status for textmode.
SYNOPSIS
savetextmode
textmode
DESCRIPTION
These are simple scripts to save the SVGA register state
when in textmode to the files /tmp/fontdata and /tmp/tex-
tregs or to restore it from these files.
The actual utilities used are restorefont(1), restore-
textmode(1), and restorepalette(1).
The purpose of these scripts program is usually to recover
from a crashed console due to an svgalib, Xfree or other
program bug.
You do this by being a smart guy and running savetextmode
Never tried this - I didn't know about it until about 3 days ago.
HTH
Ivan.
