Re: command on vc switch



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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:28:22 +0100 Michael Panev <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

| chris gareau wrote:
|> I am using x.org 7.1, the videocard is a radeon x1300 pro and I am using |> ati's fglrx driver, I want to tell x to unload the fglrx driver when it |> loosis consel control and reload it like it has just started up when I |> swich back, I need the vcs because I can start more then 1 x session at |> a time and would like to swich between them without haveing my computer |> freezzzzz, this is a flaw in ati's driver that I am trying to find a |> workaround for.
| | You don't need any workaround, it works out of the box, at least on | Debian (AFAIK Debian patches Xorg for this to work, tough). I've been | running two separate X sesstions on vt7 and vt8 for quite some time now, | and I can switch between them with Ctrl+Alt+F7/8.

But what about switching between X and VC and back again?

the computer freezes when I try to go back to x
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