On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces > more verticle white lines where the text should be.
It is likely that your SVGA registers were corrupted by X crashing in this way. The only solutions are: 1. reboot 2. start X and live without consoles for now If you install svgalib-bin you can use savetextmode and restoretextmode to avoid a reboot caused by this problem in the future, but that solution depends on your already having saved the video registers from console mode when they were in a pristine state. See "man savetextmode" for an explanation of this problem. - MikeT -- Michael Touloumtzis Computer Associates Senior Software Developer tel: +1 508 628-8262 fax: +1 508 820-2934 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
