[2879] in RedHat Linux List
Re: redhat linux/X video modes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 5 22:06:53 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:01:31 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@moneyworld.com>
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Skull wrote:
......
> >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.
> what would that even do? I've managed to exit by force quitting
> X, and then I have to reboot. I don't want to reboot.
Ctrl+C is a standard way to abort processes. So,
when you type "startx" , command prompt doesn't
return, right? Right, until you press ^C which
will abort "startx" script, bring you the shell
prompt back and restore text mode in some time.
Sometimes, it takes very long, e.g. after I try
to start doom, my screen goes blank, then I abort it,
and it takes about 1 minute for my screen to come up.
Something has to do with videoram maybe?
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