On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> I have an #9 Revolution 3D AGP video card and have the same type of
> problem. The I128 x-server garbles the text mode. Reboot fixes it.
>
> I've e-mailed the author, and he says it's a known bug, so far I haven't
> found anything to fix it besides a reboot.
> To cope, I:
> 1) Stay in X all the time! (not TOO hard...)
> 2) memorize where important commands are when you do need to be outside of
> x.
> (ie cd /usr/local/3Dfx/bin/; test3Dfx to restore 3Dfx card...)
>
Well, I kinda get around the problem by having an alias to "shutdown
-r now" in my .bashrc. :-) That fixes the problem but it's annoying
as hell! :-(
Thanks for confirming that there's a few known bugs. :-)
John
