Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:42:32 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a desirable fetaure: syscons reset utility Message-ID: <381417F8.1BFEB34B@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <38120617.CA2EA948@we.lc.ehu.es> <199910250735.QAA11861@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >I think that many of us have experienced Xserver crashes that > >leave the console (display, keyboard, or both) in a unusable state. > >Then, we log into the system from a serial terminal or another > >networked host and... now what? There is no way for resetting the > >console, turning it usable again (or there is?). A small utility capable > >of resetting the console would be very useful. What do you think > >about this idea, Mr Yokota? :-) > > Try running the following sequence of commands. > > vidcontrol -s 0 < /dev/ttyv0 > vidcontrol 80x25 < /dev/ttyv0 > kbd_mode -a < /dev/ttyv0 > > The above sequence MIGHT work. But, sadly, it won't, in general. > There isn't a reliable way of `resetting' video hardware once the X > server has messed up with it. > Oh, bad news. I tried that sequence of commands several times, without any luck. Well, we will have to live with this problem. Fortunately, my Xserver does not crash very often ;-) . Thanks, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.org Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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