Hello, I run my desktop from the framebuffer, and often use the fbdev mplayer video output to watch video. I generally do this by sshing in to the machine via my laptop, running # export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 to get video to output to my desktop's display. Occasionally, while watching something, my ssh connection gets killed. My dhcp might renew on a reconnect, or the shell running mplayer might get killed, but the mplayer process dies without closing correctly. As a result, the last frame rendered by mplayer is stuck on the screen. Changes to the framebuffer will remove this image locally, but areas that can't be cleared (like a small strip on the bottom of the screen) retain the image indefinitely. Furthermore, using fbdev again with mplayer causes each subsequent final frame to become similarly stuck, regardless of how mplayer is quit. Is there some way to 'reset' the framebuffer and stop this without restarting? Cheers, pants -- jaron `pants' kent-dobias pants@cs.hmc.edu 425 999 1948