Where is my Vbetool?

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hello jean.

On 04/29/2013 02:20 PM, Jean François Martinez wrote:
> Is there in F18 a successor to Vbetool?  Its usefulness went far beyond
> setting the video at boot time.
>
> In sevaerl occassions I hacve had to kill X but this  leaves the video card
> in a bad state and I can no longer have a text display until I reboot.
>
> In F17 vbetool could be used for resetting the video card to a sane state.
> Now I am forced to reboot.
>

> Unless there is a better successor vbetool should be reintroduced in
> Fedora.

this is true.

if nothing else is submitted, get codes from oem of card.

put reset sequence in a file, then a shell script file with;

    cat "reset-sequence-fn" > /dev/vga

never know.

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peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

sl5.9 linux

tc. hago.

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