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Re: redhat linux/X video modes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 5 18:28:47 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 15:25:41 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Skull wrote:
>
> This isn't really redhat specific, so to speak. But I'll
> ask. Every now an then, I'll do something that won't work
> and switches from text mode to a video mode, but I manage
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
??
> to get back to a regular console prompt, except, I'm in VGA
> mode, so I cannot see anything I type or do. IS there anything
> in linux that will toggle from video mode to text mode much
> like mode co80 and such does under dos? In case I get stuck in
> VGA mode and don't want to reboot to get text mode back on the
> linux console??
I am not sure what you mean. Try switching from X
to consoles by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F? and back to X
by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F7. If you are not running X,
you can still switch from one console to another
by Ctrl+Alt+F?.
F? stands for Function keys on the top.
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