> The video board hardware crashes. I can get back my keyboard
> with the SysRq key. Then I can run restoretextmode (different
dumb question: how does it work to get back with SysRq key ?
> garbage), start X again (different garbage), reboot and let
> the BIOS play with things (different garbage), start Windows NT
> (different garbage)...
this might hapen for your Cirrus Logic video board,
but there are many cards I know of where just restarting
the X server usually works fine (and reboot etc. too).
many users would be happy to know just _that_...
> You can only reset the video card if you know the current
> internal state. Video boards overload registers by putting
> a read-only and write-only register at the same address.
> This means that the board can not be reset except by the
> software that was using it. GGI solves this.
at least for S3 cards and some others this isn't true (even if they
use overload registers etc. too).
> Now I'm sure you will all want a Cirrus Logic video board...
if you know so much about Cirrus chips (I don't) and suffer(ed) that
problem yourself, did you ever think about improving the exit handler
of the Xserver for Cirrus? or is it impossible to solve your problems
there too (why?) ?
Harald
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