>> > 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.
Of course there are NO standard way to tell the video card to go back to 80x25
textmode. Video-card independant way that is. You should restore all videocard
registers and access to this registers is non-standartized :-)) May be
framebuffer driver could help here...
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