On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:08:29AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 23:47, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:29:28PM +0300, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> > > hi!
> > > I have this weird problem that after I start X I can't return to console
> > > mode any more. (I'm talking here even on a minimal X - aka. running:
> > > "X")
> >
> > Can any Asm wiz here code a (root-privileges-requiring, of course)
> > program to do a mode switch to 80x25 via int 10 or direct memory
> > access or however its possible in Linux?
>
> I'm not an Asm wiz by a long shot, but I do remember something like this
> coming with svgalib or what was it's name...
Yes.
Read textmode(1).
BTW, I do not think the
MOV AX,xx
INT 10
suggestion will work, without moving to realmode (and maybe even with
moving it won't work very well).
textmode works well for me (I also have problems similar to the original
poster).
Didi
>
> Gilad.
>
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