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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
> >
> >> Could I add to .xinitrc as first line 'resizecons 80x25'?  My only
> >> serious problem with Xvesa other than on one laptop is that it
> >> messes up my console when it exits.
> >                            ^^^^^^^^
> > Xinitrc is executed when X starts up. How would that help?
> 
> I have rc.S set to 'resizecons 80x30'.  (I had to do this three 
> times in a row to get a full 30 lines instead of just 25 lines of 
> smaller text). If I go into Xvesa with the virtual terminals set to 
> 80x30, then things get very messed up and I lose my cursor in MDA 
> or VGA (when I exit Xvesa). Exiting from 80x30 to plain 80x25 
> should eliminate this particular problem with Xvesa (assuming I 
> have not also loaded another font).
>
> I could perhaps do this in an alias instead:
> 'resizecons 80x25; xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa ....'
> 
> I will experiment with this.  Is there some way to set up an alias 
> so that when I exit it goes back to 80x30?

resizecons 80x25; startx; resizecons 80x30
^ Try that. You can make it into an alias.

> Or maybe a script to do 
> this instead? Is .xinitrc a script?  The main problem is however 
> forgetting to go back to 80x25 before Xvesa and ending up in a mess 
> without cursors.
> 
  [what kind of mice are causing trouble?]
> All PS/2 mice.  I have a source of free mice and will just keep 
> trading until they all work with everything.  I want to keep the 
> serial ports free for use with external modem and nullmodem cable.

gpm in repeater mode may help, and/or a different Xserver.

David
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