Re: Screen blinks after exiting XFree86

[Ramon Gandia <rfg nook net>]

Russ Davis wrote:
> 
> Running RedHat 5.2 w/2.2.1 kernel:
> 
> As soon as I end my XFree86 session and return to the command line, my screen starts blinking.  Everything is OK before I use startx to get into X, and everything is OK during the X session, but upon exit the blinking behavior starts.
> 
> Commands are still accepted and processed correctly when I get into this blink mode, but the only command I use at that point is "shutdown -r now" since it's pretty hard to concentrate!

Not on how to fix it for good, but rather than typing the
"shutdown -r now", try instead to use the command "reset",
which resets the video card and should turn the blinking off
(as well as goofy characters, weird colors and stuff like that).


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