From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2aol-0005qj-9b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:39:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6HLcDQm006113; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:38:13 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6HLU1kw000139 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:30:02 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC7942C2 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:26:50 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:30:00 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal In-Reply-To: <44BBAE29.1050506@gentoo.org> References: <20060717151826.53281.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44BBAE29.1050506@gentoo.org> Message-Id: <20060718092805.C544.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.24.02 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 816078f7-aae6-450e-b807-40355f0dd56d X-Archives-Hash: 1f85041c8c2cc40d3cfe3492bdd27c6b 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 > -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list