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Re: S3 Trio 64 (#9 fx 331) and console(svgalib) problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Evans)
Thu Nov 7 07:26:36 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:26:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Manuel A. McLure T. wrote:
> BTW, if your screen is already messed up, I've found that even "textmode"
> may not get it back. However, if you have dosemu set up, running "dos"
> (by touch, since you can't see anything) will recover your video
> settings. Seems like it runs the video BIOS which resets the bad
> registers...
I always found textmode to be adequate at restoring things, although a
subsequent "setfont" was sometimes neccessary. I eventually got around to
setting up a script called "tm" so I didn't have to type lots of stuff
blind :-)
Incidentally, "startx" is useful too, to repair things, as it will shove
your video card into a sane mode again.
Chris.
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