Re: broken vt output

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:04:52AM +0100, Michael Erskine wrote:
> 
> I have a bizarre problem with one of my Sarge boxes: when I boot to the 
> default runlevel (2 - with KDE) the virtual terminals on the console (vt1 to 
> vt6 - regular console - not fb) seem to be displaying the wrong data! I can 
> work on the vts but I can't see what I'm typing -- I get "old" data as 
> output: to begin with it's messages produced during the boot process and 
> eventually seemingly random data, very colourful and occasionally blinking! 
> This set of output data eventually repeats itself regardless of whatever is 
> typed as input and whatever output is "expected". Lots of fun! The vts are 
> rendered rather useless but I tend to use X nowadays (not good when the 
> nvidia-glx breaks every kernel upgrade though!) so I can always "chvt 7". 
> Booting to single user (grub provides "recovery mode") gives me the single vt 
> that works as expected.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?

Not exactly the same but I have a problem on two machines:  on tty1
characters like ë é û  display in a strange manner while on the others
they display correctly.

Regards
Johann
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