On %M 0, Rob Mahurin wrote > OK, here is story to date: > > [snip] > 8. I go insane with frustration at the whole situation and reboot. > > 9. Rebooting gives me my pretty high-res console back --- and > SVGATextMode promptly switches it back to Plane Jane 80x25. >
If you set it up, it will do better/as you specify; this is just the default. If you didn't configure it for your chipset, this could be why it didn't work. > 10. Remove svgatextmode. Scream twice. Reboot again. Normal. Much > better. Insanity fading to normal levels. > > Now that I've obliterated my problem (destruction is so satisfying), > I'm curious: could I have used some derivative of vidmode(8) and not > had to reboot? Or does that only apply on the next reboot? And if > so, is there any way in the base system to "hot-switch" the video > mode? I intend to learn something from this experience or die trying. > If it messed up and *then* you started X, you're probably hosed unless you actually quit X. Your X server doesn't know much about setting or restoring text modes; it just saves the state it finds when you start X, and restores it when you quit or swap to a text mode vt. I'd have thought you'd do better with svgatextmode, if text mode worked when you started X. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
