Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > 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 estoretextmode > 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. >
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into savetextmode and restoretextmode. Do you have any idea why this would be happening, though? True, when I reboot everything goes back to normal and I can work at a console again. However, as soon as I start X again, the console display gets screwed up again. It doesn't seem like I should have to use savetextmode and restoretextmode every time I want to use X.
Thanks again. -- Brian J. Stults Department of Sociology University of Florida Box 117330 Gainesville, Florida 32611-7330 phone: (352) 392-0265 x286 fax: (352) 392-6568 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
