Here's a new one. I just discovered that when I hit Ctl+Alt+F1 to switch to text mode, my video board wouldn't switch back to text mode. The colors went to garbage, but I could still see traces of the images that I was trying to leave behind, and no text.
I tried turning off xdm in /etc/ttys (this is XFree86 4.1.0 under FreeBSD 4.4-stable) and finally succeeded in getting no login prompt at all. I had to ssh in and reboot. But I finally traced it to what I was doing to get a graphic background for xdm. I wanted this: http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99nov/uf001253.gif on my login screen, so I put a line in Xsetup_0: /usr/local/bin/display -window root -geometry +0+0 /etc/X11/xdm/uf001253.gif (display is from ImageMagick). I had done something similar on another machine with XFree86 3.3.6 and had no such problem, but on this machine ImageMagick was apparently keeping the video board from switching back to text mode. So I guess my question is, does anyone know a better way to do this, or at least an alternative program to put a GIF on the root window behind xdm's login dialog? -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
