port-i386: Re: Garbled ASCII charachters after exiting X in 1.4

Subject: Re: Garbled ASCII charachters after exiting X in 1.4
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/22/1999 18:53:30

david@fundy.ca said:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:44:19PM -0700, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> When i exit out of X windows , I get a screen full of colorful smily
> faces and weird non-keyboard charchters 

This is the X server's fault. The X server is supposed to restore the
previous state of the graphics card when it exits.

best regards
Matthias