From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 07:37:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 07:37:03 -0400 Received: from schwerin.p4.net ([195.98.200.5]:32584 "EHLO schwerin.p4.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 07:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEE2670.4010701@p4all.de> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:39:28 +0200 From: Michael Dunsky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: "Nix N. Nix" Subject: Re: Reset PCI card In-Reply-To: <1022145683.21661.15.camel@tux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. >