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From: davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander)
Subject: XFree86 makes my screen unreadable
Message-ID: <1993Nov8.184909.26637@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 18:49:09 GMT
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I have no problem running X, but when I exit, the screen goes blank,
presumably because it is in a strange state, and I can't seem to reset
it without rebooting.

I am running FreeBSD 1.0 with XFree86 2.0, and have the "vga" terminal
driver running on the console.

Any suggestions?

- David