Hi

I've recently upgraded to slackware 10.1 and am using the new xorg
X server. Its a good server but it has a bug with my video card
(Matrox G200) in that when it exits it sometimes leaves the main
console screen in a mess , with no terminal sessions available.
I can still use the machine remotely but it is unusable with its
own monitor & keyboard etc. Killing the X server is no use since
its already dead , is there a command to flush the whole video
buffer and reset the console? I'm not using kernel framebuffers.

Thanks for any help

B2003

On 2005-04-22, Boltar <boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> (Matrox G200) in that when it exits it sometimes leaves the main
> console screen in a mess

maning of 'a mess'?
Usually typing (blindly) ctrl-y reset ctrl-y send a reset to the
terminal and fix most problems.

Davide

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Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote:
>On 2005-04-22, Boltar <boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> (Matrox G200) in that when it exits it sometimes leaves the main
>> console screen in a mess
>
>maning of 'a mess'?

A distored colour version of the last screen image before the X server proces
exited.

>Usually typing (blindly) ctrl-y reset ctrl-y send a reset to the
>terminal and fix most problems.

Its not a terminal issue , its a video card issue. The keyboard , mouse
and screen are totally locked up.

B2003

In comp.os.linux.setup Boltar <boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk>:
> Hi

> I've recently upgraded to slackware 10.1 and am using the new xorg
> X server. Its a good server but it has a bug with my video card
> (Matrox G200) in that when it exits it sometimes leaves the main
> console screen in a mess , with no terminal sessions available.
> I can still use the machine remotely but it is unusable with its
> own monitor & keyboard etc. Killing the X server is no use since
> its already dead , is there a command to flush the whole video
> buffer and reset the console? I'm not using kernel framebuffers.

Try "Documentation/sysrq.txt" in the kernel docs, this options
could be useful:

'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE.

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In comp.os.linux.setup Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de>:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Boltar <boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk>:
>> Hi

>> I've recently upgraded to slackware 10.1 and am using the new xorg
>> X server. Its a good server but it has a bug with my video card
>> (Matrox G200) in that when it exits it sometimes leaves the main
>> console screen in a mess , with no terminal sessions available.
>> I can still use the machine remotely but it is unusable with its
>> own monitor & keyboard etc. Killing the X server is no use since
>> its already dead , is there a command to flush the whole video
>> buffer and reset the console? I'm not using kernel framebuffers.

> Try "Documentation/sysrq.txt" in the kernel docs, this options
> could be useful:

> 'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE.

In addition, please let us know if this works for you? This is
just an idea what might help, since there are no problems with my
X, can't test if this would really help. It's just what I'd try
out and see if this fixes things. In addition to checking if you
graphics card would work better with a more recent X server and
update to this version.

Good luck


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