On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:55:50 -0500
"Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had the problem where the wscons fonts are not restored properly,
> e.g. 80x50 mode is restored as 80x25.
> 
> There are different ways to deal with this:
> 
> 1) Run only 80x50 VTs and change the X server code (somewhere in
> Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd, IIRC) to use 80x50 mode instead of
> 80x25.
> 
> 2) Use a fairly recent version of the X.org server.
> This does not have this problem for me (using the xf86-video-intel
> driver, at least).
> 
> I used to have actual corruption of console text mode, but this was
> fixed when I removed a hunk of the AGP code that was freeing memory
> mappings that were already freed by the calling function.
> 
I've never seen that on my T42, but (a) I only use xorg, for
compatibility with my other -current machines that can't use XFree86,
and (b) I'm almost never in console mode.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb