Re: My terminal is in a weird state
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, 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?
There's a few mentioned in the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO (in
/usr/doc/HOWTO with a doc-linux-* package installed). You log into the
afflicted virtual terminal and these commands (which you'll probably have
to type blindly...)
- echo -e \\033c
- tput reset
- setfont
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