Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:06:55PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: > > > > > > > - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started > > > > > > Why? works fine here. > > > > He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it prope

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-15 Thread Igor Grobman
> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: > > > > > - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started > > > > Why? works fine here. > > He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, > but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps th

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: > > > - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started > > Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So it fa

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Igor Grobman
> > problems: > - maybe the mouse is stuck in the upper screen (I didn't take care of > that actually) you need to add the following to your TextConfig (or uncomment it as the case might be): ResetProg "/path/where/reset/script/is/located" the reset script from the hamm version of stm is attach

SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Irmund Thum
a short review for other beginners: SVGATextMode can resize the console screen on the fly, e.g. SVGATextMode 116x43x9_12 - use dselect to install SVGATextMode - if XF86Config exists, you should know what to do otherwise read the man pages and docs carefully - un-comment the lines in /etc/rc.bo