Re: Reset PCI card

[Michael Dunsky <michael.dunsky@p4all.de>]

Hi!

The "svgalib" has a tool named "reset_vga". It completely resets your
VGA-card . You may try it... but it's only a workaround at the cause and 
not at the symptom.

I used it a longer time ago with a similar problem (only slightly 
similar - programmed the VGA-card "by hand", and needed to clear the 
scrambled output I produced :-) ).

ciao

Michael


Nix N. Nix wrote:
 > The symptom:
 >
 > Sometimes, when I switch between virtual terminals, (away from X ==
 > tty7), instead of getting my usual login prompt, the picture I've had
 > during my X session (or the picture of the display manager) stays on
 > the screen, albeit with some of the colours screwed up (as if it were
 > a 256 colour palette-based display, even though it's 24 bit colour -
 > you know, like in Windows, when you have 256 colours and you switch
 > from one app to another and the colours in your background picture get
 > all frelled up).  The terminal does switch over to the appropriate tty
 > because I can log in and type whatever (blindly though) and it does
 > work.
 >