on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao (debian@0451.com) wrote: > Hi > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters. > Other ttys are normal. I tried "cat /dev/random" on Konsole, and it doesn't > have this problem. > > Does that mean there are exploits in ttys' driver code? Try: $ reset $ vi <return> ZZ $ top <space><space><space><space>q ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, but I've found that a 'reset', brief 'vi' session, and a few screen refreshes of 'top' will fix things virtually always. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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