[2865] in RedHat Linux List
Re: redhat linux/X video modes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Tue Nov 5 20:38:34 1996
From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:34:53 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <327FCCF5.3C0BE998@iceonline.com> from "Borg" at Nov 5, 96 03:25:41 pm
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> > 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
> ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
What I mean is, I run X, but its a blank screen, black with no video.
And nothing I can do except reboot will reset it to text mode.
> > 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??
FOr example, if you run X with the wrong video driver and it works,
you load up X, but get no video display, you try to exit X, and you
are still in a blank VGA mode.
> 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?.
No, i get a BLANK black screen, no cursor, no anything, except if
I do a control-alt-backspace I exit X back to a console prompt. but
I'm STILL seeing a blank black VGA mode screen..
Darron
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