Re: CURRENT+xorg-7.4 on eeePC 900 && X crashes on shutdown

El día Monday, April 27, 2009 a las 04:32:01PM +0200, Paul B. Mahol escribió:

> >
> > while I'm thinking about, it would be nice to get the alpha-console back
> > to a usable state; when the X server crashes it let the display in
> > nonsense output; all other is still working, i.e. I can use Alt-F2 to go
> > to another alpha console, can login and reboot, but all this without
> > seeing what I type; is there some tool/command to reset the VGA so that the
> > output is visible again? I could insert this into the ~/.xinitrc after
> > the call of 'startkde' and all would be fine until updating the X11
> > server; any idea?
> >
> 
> Doesnt starting Xorg again fix problem,

yes it does; but if you terminate the new X server it crashes again and
you're in the same situation;

> doesnt using vesa instead of
> intel makes console output more useful l(starting Xorg with vesa
> driver after Xorg crash with intel, you can use -layout switch for
> that).
> 
> If you dont care about acceleration and more CPU usage use vesa until further.

I've tested it right now with 'Driver "vesa"'; it comes up and
terminates fine, but only in 800x600 resolution, streched to the screen
of 1024x600 pixel :-(

	matthias

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