From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:35:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BBAE29.1050506@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060717151826.53281.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-17 15:45 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 [this message]
2006-07-17 21:30 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-17 23:22 ` Richard Broersma Jr
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