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Re: redhat linux/X video modes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 5 21:51:07 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 18:42:04 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@moneyworld.com>
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Skull wrote:
......
> 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.
......
> 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.
........
> 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..
No, when I was configuring my Mach64, I had to experiment
5 or 6 times, each time it went blank. What I did:
1. (blindly) pressed Ctrl+Alt+F(free VC)
2. (blindly) logged in as "root"
3 (blindly) typed "shutdown -r now".
Despite the screen was black, the system itself worked,
except the video which was locked, so, I still could
shutdown the system cleanly, and start configuring again.
You can also try to blindly go back to VC from where you tried
to start X, press Ctrl+C and wait 30-40 seconds or so.
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