Debian was easily installed on my Gateway Solo 3500 laptop, with ATI Mach64 Rage Mobility graphics card. The best VGA console fonts are obtained by # insmod atyfb providing slim 80x30 fonts in the text console. However Xwindows does not stabilize subsequently with this driver active, AND # rmmod atyfb fails because the driver is in use on the active console.
To circumvent this problem short of rebooting, I've tried variants of a script executed in background (&) ------------ #!/bin/sh deallocvt deallocvt tty0 rmmod atyfb chvt tty0 -------------- to kill the console remove atyfb restart the console. But thus far attempts have failed: deallocvt: 0: illegal VT number Can anyone skilled in console issues provide some advice? MarvS
