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by **Kru** » Fri, 21 May 1993 04:59:25

I've installed everything on the SLS 1.02 release except networking
(tcpip, uucp stuff) and have X up and running. My question is
about quitting from X and getting back to text mode Linux.

When I exit from twm, the server quits and I get a text screen, but
it is terribly garbled and unreadable. My multisync MAG monitor
says that the signal is out of range. The shell still responds to
the keyboard, so I generally just sync, shutdown and reboot. But it
seems there must be a pretty large problem for this to happen.

Has anybody experienced this behavior?
Have your found any solutions?
If it helps, here is my hardware setup:
586DX2/66 w/ 256k
8 Megs Ram
2x 212 Western Digital HDs
et4000 w/ 1Meg VRAM
15 inch multisync MAG monitor

Please let me know of any solutions to this problem.
Thanks.

by **Marco Petrone 319711/** » Fri, 21 May 1993 22:17:43

Quote:> When I exit from twm, the server quits and I get a text screen, but
> it is terribly garbled and unreadable. My multisync MAG monitor
> says that the signal is out of range. The shell still responds to
> the keyboard, so I generally just sync, shutdown and reboot. But it
> seems there must be a pretty large problem for this to happen
...
> Has anybody experienced this behavior?
> Have your found any solutions?
> If it helps, here is my hardware setup:
...
> et4000 w/ 1Meg VRAM
> 15 inch multisync MAG monitor

> Please let me know of any solutions to this problem.

I have a similar problem with my SLS 1.0 either with olwm or twm, so i think it depends by the X server.

If I enter into Linux selecting the Normal VGA mode (80x25), I can't back to text mode: the screen is unreadable!
No problems entering in supervga mode 80x50. I can't try with other modes as my monitor is a normal VGA.

Ah, my configuration is 486Cyrix and et4000 1M.

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by **Kai Voi** » Mon, 24 May 1993 17:23:00

>> When I exit from twm, the server quits and I get a text screen, but
>> it is terribly garbled and unreadable. My multisync MAG monitor
>> says that the signal is out of range. The shell still responds to
>> the keyboard, so I generally just sync, shutdown and reboot. But it
>> seems there must be a pretty large problem for this to happen
>...
>> Has anybody experienced this behavior?
>> Have your found any solutions?
>> If it helps, here is my hardware setup:
>...
>> et4000 w/ 1Meg VRAM
>> 15 inch multisync MAG monitor

>> Please let me know of any solutions to this problem.
>I have a similar problem with my SLS 1.0 either with olwm or twm, so i think it depends by the X server.
>If I enter into Linux selecting the Normal VGA mode (80x25), I can't back to text mode: the screen is unreadable!
>No problems entering in supervga mode 80x50. I can't try with other modes as my monitor is a normal VGA.

I _had_ the same problem. After leaving X I got a black on black text mode.
The VC's were still alive but the only way to get back to a working text
mode was to reboot the system.
Then I downloaded a newer vgalib (or was it libvga..) package that includes
the program runx which you use instead of startx. runx seems to store the
vga registers and starts startx then. When you leave X runx will write back
the saved registers to your vga card and: Tataaaa. You get back your perfect
text mode.

Why aren't ALL problems that easy to solve :-)

Kai
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Kai Voigt, Werftstrasse 2, 2300 Kiel 14, Germany, +49 431 7297514

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Exiting from X back to text mode

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