Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-15 Thread Igor Grobman
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:06:55PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only

SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Irmund Thum
a short review for other beginners: SVGATextMode can resize the console screen on the fly, e.g. SVGATextMode 116x43x9_12 - use dselect to install SVGATextMode - if XF86Config exists, you should know what to do otherwise read the man pages and docs carefully - un-comment the lines in

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Igor Grobman
problems: - maybe the mouse is stuck in the upper screen (I didn't take care of that actually) you need to add the following to your TextConfig (or uncomment it as the case might be): ResetProg /path/where/reset/script/is/located the reset script from the hamm version of stm is attached.

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So it fails