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

[Jason Strnad]

Do you use the framebuffer for textmode before you load X? You may try 
using it, and setting up X to invoke a short script which resets your 
framebuffer to a known working mode.  Try playing with the console fb 
options and settings to get something that works for you, then stick 
those settings in a script that is run as X exits.

-Jason

On Nov 25, 2003, at 10:20 AM, Brian Jarrett wrote:

> 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
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