TTY display has lost lower case

[Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net>]

TTY1 went bonkers last night.  I had done "pr XF86Config | less."
Halfway down the second page it started printing the old IBM text based
graphic characters.  (At least that's what they look like.)  Upper case
and numbers look ok, except for a few oddities, eg. the underscore is a
space and the + is a right arrow.  --just found the underscore, it's
's'.

I tried a shutdown/reboot from TTY2 to no avail.  Everything came back
the same.  Would a hard shutdown make a diff?  

I can use the other TTY's all right.  Output to the printer seems ok.
Keyboard input is understood even if the screen echo is not 

I'm so new at this I have no idea what other info would help the gurus
amongst you.  I'm still trying to get X up, thus pr XF86...

gt