Re: how to reset the console?
If it's any good to you Rob, I could run savetextmode on my machine and
post it to you. I'd hate to see you lose your uptime :)
Can anyone on the list see a reason why this wouldn't work ?
Ivan.
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 01:58:03AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:06:38PM +0800, ivan@vianet.net.au wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:48:00PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote:
> > >
> > > Cool. :-)
> > > So now we have:
> > >
> > > reset
> > > stty sane
> > > <ctrl>-v <esc> c
> > >
> > > to restore a messed up text interface.
> > >
> > > Groetjes, Ookhoi
> > >
> >
> > don't forget setfont - maybe we can start a collection :)
> >
> > But the original question referred to an svgalib messed up console which is
> > quite a bit different.
> >
> > Ivan.
>
> In particular, it's different in that none of those did me any good
> :(.
>
> svgalib comes with a couple of utils called "textmode" and
> "savetextmode" that are supposed to help in exactly my situation
> ... but the man page says:
>
> You do this by being a smart guy and running savetextmode
> right after booting of your machine, prior to any prob
> lems.
>
> Unluckily for me, I'm not a smart guy. these are both scripts for a
> couple of restoration utils that take a previous config from a file
> and reinstate it -- but I have made no such file. My question at this
> point: is there such a file on my system? could I create one? Or
> should I just break down and reboot again?
>
> If it helps, running textmode at this point changes the multicolored
> static pattern blinking on my textmode screens to a red static pattern
> blinking on my screen.
>
> Thanks again for the help. Please Cc: to me at
> robm@mad.scientist.com.
>
> Rob
>
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