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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: XFree questions...
Date: 12 Dec 1993 00:21:41 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <CHw3Br.HMs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
Richard Puckett <puckett@expert.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>  I got XFree to go BUT I just used sample clocks and all other Xconfig data
>from sample scripts - so they aren't exactly config'd for my system...  When
>I quit X my screen is completely spammed - I can see the cursor under the
>stuff but the screen is gone...  :-)  Is this happening from the Xconfig
>params???  It's a Compaq LTE, btw...

	This means taht the XServer isn't restoring the graphics
	card's state when it exits.  You'll probably get a more informative
	answer to this problem in comp.windows.x.i386unix, the unofficial
	UseNet home to XFree86


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