Re: Screen blinks after exiting XFree86

[fred smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 12:17:38PM -0900, Ramon Gandia wrote:
> 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).

Or if that doesn't do the trick, try:
	setterm -reset
or
	setterm -blink off
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