vtty screen resolution / font trouble

[das]

--- Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:

> > 1) this is pretty serious as vtty's are often
> handy to
> > kill off procs in X that lock up the server.
> 
> Meh.  If you have a process that does that, it's
> preferable that the
> process gets fixed, rather than working around it. 
> Not that I don't
> understand the appeal, just that you're treating the
> symptom not the
> disease.

no i'm trying to keep a system - and my X apps up and
running after an errant app has locked things up.

> > 2) during boot we can go from X to vtty showing
> boot
> > details with that graphical border just fine so it
> > should be possible - right ?
> 
> If you're referring to the screen you get when you
> click "Show Details"
> or whatever during rhgb, then no, that's not text
> mode.  That's a vte
> widget embedded into the rhgb process' window.

ah - ok.  thought it was a text-mode / framebuffer
like thing (like for penguin icons durring boot).

 
> ... The workaround
> was to disable the
> "extended" save/restore bits for some cards.  (Yes,
> in a generic driver.
> God I hate vesa.)  I'll see if doing the same for
> R500 works.

I'll be happy to test it too ;)

> In the meantime, doing "vbetool post" once you've
> switched back to text
> mode might work, but might also break X horribly. 
> Try it and see!

it works - i can see all my text-mode lines again!!!

thank you

das

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