RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
Well.... nothing seems to get rid of the little critters except shutdown. I
had to switch to another VC this time, because something unknown was going
on in the first one. It seems to be getting stuck in a different video
mode.
Hank
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Schmitz [mailto:mschmitz@coinet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:01 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:47:58PM -0400, Hank Fay wrote:
> Chris,
>
> well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. <s> The only thing that
> works so far is shutdown....
>
> Hank
>
>
> Using VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronn Pimentel [mailto:ronn@idream.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:12 AM
> To: Christopher Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
> > console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
> > little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
> > corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
> > consoles and am forced to reboot.
> >
>
> The way that I get ride of a scrambled console.
> 1. Try typing "reset"
> 2. Try typing "clear"
> 3. Try running "top" This always seems to work. don't know why but it
> does.
>
Try <CTRL>v<CTRL>o<ENTER>
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