Subject: Re: X server crash/recovery
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/27/1999 16:25:54
On Jan 27,  9:28am, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>You wrote (in your message from Mon 25)
> > Is there any way of resetting the graphics, short of rebooting the system?
>
>Unfortunatly not. The console drivers don't know how to completly
>reinitialize a VGA board to a given text mode. Each chipset has its

Bummer.

>The X server saves the registers it uses and normally it should
>restore them upon exit (and should do so after a segmentation
>violation too. If it doesn't, it a bug).

That's exactly what it does.

Thanks,
~Steve

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