[lug] bad refresh going back to text mode from X on laptop.

[Brian Jarrett]

Hello,

I have a problem after shutting down X on my laptop.  The text mode refresh rate must get reset to something bad so I can't read anything in text mode.  I just have to CTRL-ALT-DEL and wait for it to reboot.  I have my laptop startup in runlevel 3, so I know it's capable.

I've got a MicroPro laptop made by UniWill (almost identical to the N351S4) that has an NVidia GeForce 440 64Mb video card.  The display is capable of 1400x1050 (this is what I have X running).  Right now I have Mandrake 9.2 on it, but I've also had Gentoo 1.4 and Krud 9 installed, and nothing has worked.

Is this a display driver problem, or is there something else I can set to prevent this?  I've seen some discussions on using fbset, but I get ioctrl errors and I've also seen some mention of SVGATextMode.

Can anyone point me in the proper direction?

Thanks,
Brian