Are you running a framebuffer console? Some cards (nvidia notably) don't come back well to a framebuffer console after X has been running. Try booting to a regular console by adding vga="normal" to your boot line in grub.
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:35:05 -0700 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > > I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. > > > > I am testing various settings in the xorg.conf file. Some settings change > > the performance of X, > > others break X all together. > > > > Some setting not only break X but also corrupt all of the command line > > terminals. The only way I > > am able to restore the terminals is by rebooting the computer. > > > > Is there a way to fix corrupted command line terminals once corrupted other > > than rebooting. > > You could try 'reset' but that will usually just fix up corruption from > e.g. catting a binary file. Once the framebuffer's corrupted, it's tough > to fix. You could try fixing the X settings to ones known to work and > restarting X, that may fix whatever was screwed up. > > Thanks, > Donnie > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
