> > Yep. But there's not much you can do [0], since the kernel doesn't know
> > how to properly restore video modes.
>
> There must be some standard way to tell the video card to go back to 80x25
> textmode. At least on the i386 architecture. Unfortunately I don't
> enough about video card programming to know what that would be.
There is only one safe standard way I know of. Pressing the reset button
if your computer has one ... it's virtually impossible to do it in software.
Vojtech
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