Re: how to reset the console?
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:02:12PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
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> > Typing "reset" doesn't help. the man page for the console says that
> > it can be reset by echoing ESC c to it, but either that's not doing
> > anything either or I'm not doing that right (I'm blind typing "echo -e
> > \\033c", which clears the xterm I'm working in).
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> Ah, and XTERM! Try control-<right-mouse-button> and select full reset.
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Oops, sorry about the confusion there --- the xterm isn't the problem.
My consoles that are in video mode (tty7, and anything begat by
startx) are fine. It's the ones that are in text mode (tty[1-6] that
are messed up: they show pretty much random assortments of colors (all
the same, can't tell which one I'm on unless I know which alt-Fn I
pushed to get there). I was typing "echo -e \\033c" in the xterm to
make sure that I had the syntax right and it reset properly in there;
when I blind type it on my befuddled text consoles, there isn't any
change.
I think this has something to do with VGA settings and graphics modes,
but I know absolutely nothing about either of those things. How do I
get back to text?
Also interestingly, deallocvt doesn't seem to get rid of my unused
consoles like it's supposed to (tty[8-10]). I would imagine these two
things are related, as I've never seen either of them before.
Please Cc: your replies to me at robm@mad.scientist.com. Thanks.
Rob
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