Re: Broken virtual console
In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote:
>
> After a telnet session to my ISP in which I had to set TERM=vt100 to get
> pine to work (linux termtype unrecognized) I returned from the session
> only to find that the console was broken. When the cursor reaches the
> bottom of the screen no scrolling occurs, so successive lines appear on
> top of each other. When I try to use pine the controled lines cause
> scrolling when it is not desired.
> I have tried resetting the term type to linux, logging out, killing bash
> from root, and none have had any effect.
> Short of rebooting the system (something I will be doing in a while
> anyway) is there any way to recover from this behavior. I had problems in
> ancient times with minicom on these same screen control issues and never
> resolved it there.
That happens to me every once in a while, and all I have to do is type
'reset' to fix it..
Tim
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