* Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread, so excuse me if this has already been discussed. I had this same or a "very similar" problem on my system. The cause of it was the framebuffer as I remember. If I would start computer and boot straight into xdm, then kill xdm from within another console I would be left with the screen that looked like you describe. I just took off framebuffer line in the lilo. Just my 2 cents. Alex.
