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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!news!brtmac From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: no screen after X exits Date: 2 Sep 92 10:10:13 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 24 Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Sep2101013@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu I'm having a problem with having no screen after X exits. This is really annoying when something is wrong and X doesn't start since one of the first things it does is set the graphic mode on the card. I have to reboot to get the screen back and then I loose any information I had as to why X didn't start. My configuration is: 386sx/16 8M RAM 7120A Maxtor IDE 2 com ports Sigma Legend 1M VGA (ET-4000 chipset) AOC CM-336 SVGA monitor I can get X to run fine and can even get at the keyboard by doing a 'startx;sleep 999999' (anyone want to tell me why this works?). I am planning on running XDM in the future, but I want to get X to where it actually works like I want it before doing this. Is there a program out there that resets the video card to standard 80x25 text mode? ++Brett;