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16-Dec-2005

Holiday poem

Filed under: politics — jlm @ 20:05

I was staying away from doing links to news and politics, but it’s a blue moon when a Congressman shows this much sense of humor.

Dingell’s Jingle

15-Dec-2005

Resetting graphics card without resetting X

Filed under: linux — jlm @ 21:00

Hmm, been a while since I put anything here. How about a tip o’ the month?

Say your graphics card gets all wonky, but you still have a lot of state in your X session which you don’t want to lose. A good thing to try is “sudo chvt 1” to switch to a text console. Then when you bring X back with Alt-F7 or whatever, the X server shifts the card back into graphics mode from a clean slate and then displays everything you have up. Of course, it doesn’t work if it’s the X server itself which is messed up, or if the card’s state is too far gone to switch to text and back.

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