Hello,

I tried freebsd for the hell of it and it didn't have this issue.

Thanks,
Poff
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:00:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
> To: poff@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG
> Cc: tech-x11@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: black on black terminal after quitting X
>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 @ 7:49pm (-0000), poff@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I searched the list, and found a similar problem from someone having a
> > black on black terminal...
> >
> > XFree86 Version 4.2.0
> >
> > http://poff.sixbit.org/netbsd has a load of my logs and configurations for
> > X...
>
>
>
> ...this problem is old as sin, and no one seems to be able to fix it, and
> none of the wscons fixes ever make it back to the xfree86.org tree; normally
> it happens with the 'nv' driver.  Happens to to my geforce all the time.
>
> -lava
>
> >
> > I didn't see any solutions to this from the other posts, something about
> > changing from 80x50 to 80x25 => how would I do this and would it help?
> > (I'm a n00b)
> >
> > I tryed "reset" and posting a weird string of stuff someone else
> > suggested, but to no avail :(
> >
> > Any ideas? It's the same if I use Ctrl-Alt-F1 or similar during my x
> > session.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > poff@sixbit.org
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> >
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