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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!news.nask.org.pl!gemini.coi.pw.edu.pl!ogg.ii.pw.edu.pl!gjb From: gjb@ogg.ii.pw.edu.pl (Grzegorz J. Blinowski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree312 doesn't restore text mode Date: 21 Dec 1995 16:18:23 GMT Organization: Warsaw University of Technology Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4bc1cf$phk@gemini.coi.pw.edu.pl> References: <4bbggc$ndq@gemini.coi.pw.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: ogg.ii.pw.edu.pl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2gjb PL2] One more thing: Grzegorz J. Blinowski (gjb@ogg.ii.pw.edu.pl) wrote: : Hi, : Sorry if this is a FAQ, but: : Recently I upgraded my FreeBSD 1.5.1. (!) & Xfree86 2 to : FBSD 2.1.0/Xfree 3.12, all works fine except the X server : which refuses to properly switch back to text mode, when killed, : or when consoles are changed (ctrl-alt-Fn). : When the consoles are switched the screen becomes blank, : but the keyboard reacts ok. I also found out that: vidcontrol VGA_80x25 has the same effect (i.e. all consoles become blank) : The vcard is quite standard Trident 8900cl, it worked find with XF 2. [...] -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Grzegorz Blinowski <gjb@ii.pw.edu.pl> + Institute of Computer Science WWW http://ogg.ii.pw.edu.pl/~gjb --+ Warsaw University of Technology ---------------------+ Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, POLAND --------------------------+