Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal
Hello there,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote:
> > after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and
> > everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few
> > times. How can I get my terminal back to normal? Thanks a lot
>
> fist press ^c (just to flush the input buffer)
> then run "reset"
Concerning a similar problem I encountered a very strange behaviour.
When in text mode I have no problem with my console. But when I run X
(from the stable distri), and then switch back to console (either by
killing my X-Session or by switching to a different VT), the screen is
completely messed up with strange symbols. The problem is, that the normal
mode CAN NOT BE RESTORED neither with "reset" nor with "tset" nor with
"clear" nor with "kbd_mode". The only way to get out of that odd situation
is to shutdown and reboot. I read somewhere in the X-documentation, that
this problem is due to some combinations of motherboard and graphics-card
and that it can probably be solved by using the "runx-script" in the
svga-lib-package. So I unpacked the svgalib-deb in /tmp, and looked at it,
but found no file, which resembled some kind of runx-script.
Does anybody know a solution to that problem, or where to find that
ominous runx-script?
Regards,
Daniel
Reply to: