--- Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list