On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:37:13 -0400 (EDT), der Mouse writes:
>When doing a console switch involving a non-text console, the kernel
>does not know how to save and restore the relevant hardware bits.  So
>it just generates an event telling whatever is dealing with the
>graphics to do the save/restore.
>
>Except of course that in this case that's the wedged (or dead) X
>server, so nothing happens.

That would explain the result when switching to the vty that the dead
X was running on, but not all the others?

>Of course, this really ought to be dealt with by the card's driver in
>the OS.  I'm not entirely sure why that's not done.

Normally it is as far as I can tell.

Anyway I've configured xdm, and rebooted.

--sjg