RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
Yup; it affects all vc's, just as you say. It looks like I need to reset
the video card to another mode; the question is how. <s> My current approach
is to nuke the partitions and start over. <g>
Hank
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Wright [mailto:D.Wright@open.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 10:39 AM
To: Hank Fay
Cc: Mike Schmitz; debian-user
Subject: RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Hank Fay wrote:
> 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.
Well you could also try typing
setfont default8x16
This is the only thing that would sort out an old Avance card that I
have when i exitted from X to a VC. But I'm not optimistic, as my
problem affected *all* VCs.
Rather than rebooting, have you tried just killing the relevant VC
from another one?
Cheers,
> > well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. <s> The only thing that
> > works so far is shutdown....
> > >
> > > 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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