> I have just installed 1.4.2 GENERIC on a 16M 486DX2 with a 1M Cirrus Logic
> 
> card as above.  After exit from an X session, I get no characters on the
> screen -
> just a cursor which moves as characters are typed and accepted.  It stays
> this
> way until reboot.
> 
> According to the 'README.cirrus' file, this is a known problem - at least
> for a
> model 543x - and the solution is to execute a Linux command like setfont,
> runx
> or restorefont.
> 
> It doesn't say what the NetBSD equivalents are! I've tried 'loadfont' and
> a few
> other things - but they either don't work or come back with something like
> 'ioctl VGAGETSCREEN failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device'.
> 
> So what can I do??
> 
> G.
> 
>