Re: My terminal is in a weird state

["Mark Wright" <mwright@pro-ns.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>
To: Mark Wright <mwright@pro-ns.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: My terminal is in a weird state


>Mark Wright wrote:
>> I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display.  It seems
>> that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127
>> characters.  I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'.  I've tried
'reset',
>> but that doesn't help.  All of my virtual terminals are hosed.  For now I
>> can telnet in, but eventually I'd like to be able to work at the machine
>> itself, and I'd like to avoid rebooting if I can.  The problem started
after
>> I droped out of X, after installing Blackbox 5.  Any ideas on how to fix
the
>> problem?
>
>Try logging in the host from the network and run "kbd_mode -a" as
>root. This should fix the case when the keyboard was not properly
>restored when switching to virtual terminal from the X server.
>
>More exactly, when the X server is not controlling the console (X
>is not on, or you are on a virtual console), kbd_mode without any
>arguments should report that the keyboard is in the default (ASCII)
>mode. When you are running X, the keyboard should be in the raw
>(scancode) mode. This is what you should get when trying kbd_mode
>from another host.


That doesn't seem to be the problem.  I don't think it's a keyboard problem,
since the character mangling happens with both characters I've typed and
those output from other applications.  Even spaces are messed up - any blank
space on the screen is converted to 'a's with accent marks.

Mark.