"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> writes:

> PCVT seems to know how to get the video back in the right mode (it
> does so when you switch to a text vt).  I assume pccons must know a
> way to re-init text mode also, since it does so when you leave X.

pccons.c doesn't seem to do this.  Even the pc_xmode_off() routine
does little more than set some flags.  My guess is that the X server
does the cleanup (I will get around to inserting my MO platter with
X11 sources to check this RSN.)  If this is true it is also flawed
since X could die without running it's cleanup and you'd be stuck
(experience any shutdown sequences that end with a black screen?)

hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:

> The only solution i see right now is to use a serial console.

Maybe not the only one, but probably the most reasonable and portable.
RS/6000s w/AIX 3 use this route, and I think I am beginning to see why.


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