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From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:30:00 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060718092805.C544.NICK@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BBAE29.1050506@gentoo.org>

Are you running a framebuffer console? Some cards (nvidia notably) don't
come back well to a framebuffer console after X has been running. Try
booting to a regular console by adding vga="normal" to your boot line in
grub.


On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:35:05 -0700
Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem.
> > 
> > I am testing various settings in the xorg.conf file.  Some settings change the performance of X,
> > others break X all together.
> > 
> > Some setting not only break X but also corrupt all of the command line terminals.  The only way I
> > am able to restore the terminals is by rebooting the computer.
> > 
> > Is there a way to fix corrupted command line terminals once corrupted other than rebooting.
> 
> You could try 'reset' but that will usually just fix up corruption from
> e.g. catting a binary file. Once the framebuffer's corrupted, it's tough
> to fix. You could try fixing the X settings to ones known to work and
> restarting X, that may fix whatever was screwed up.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
> 

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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-17 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-17 15:18 [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal Richard Broersma Jr
2006-07-17 15:35 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-17 21:30   ` Nick Rout [this message]
2006-07-17 23:22     ` Richard Broersma Jr

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