Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:52:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a desirable fetaure: syscons reset utility Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9910260149520.30669-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <381417F8.1BFEB34B@we.lc.ehu.es>
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> > 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 ;-) . I ran into this problem on some Linux boxes - somewhere, I found a program that saved the video card registers when it was in a "usable" mode (80x25 text) to a file, and let you restore them later... Basically, if the X server crashed, telnet into the dead machine, kill X, and use this program to restore the video card settings. Worked about 90% of the time, I'd guess. Is something like this available on FreeBSD (or need to be written?) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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