Re: [ProgSoc] XFree86 video problems

[Daniel Cafe <dcafe@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

At 01:52 AM 5/24/98 -0700, Patrick Kennedy wrote:

>I have a problem with the video configuration. I have an old IBM VGA 
>monitor and a Tseng Labs ET4000 card, and when i start X (or XF86Setup) 
>the screen temporarily swaps to some garbled blue screen and swaps back 
>to the grey X screen witht he mouse cursor. From here i can't do 
>anything, no keyboard and no mouse buttons work.
>
>Firstly, how can i get out of this broke X session without rebooting?

Control-ALT-Backspace should fix that

Regards

Daniel


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