On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
>
> > I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the
> > mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for
> > quite a while, upgrading to a new release of XFree86 made the problem go
> > away. You can kill the X server all you want, the trick is to get
> > something to tell the card to do back to text mode!
>
> Using SVGATextMode to switch to graphics mode and back should do the
> trick.
Can you do that over a telnet session? I suppose it should work. Would
that fix the keyboard and mouse as well?
Like I said, I haven't seen that problem for a long time, but someone else
might be in the middle of it right now.
Note: The X server can't muck up kernel space, but it does talk directly
to the hardware and can certainly screw that up.
Bill Carlson
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