Re: Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal
I suggest that you try the following instead of "reset":
just type
cat
ESCc (Esc key, then C key (no shift, no caps-lock)
Ctrl-D
You should hit RETURN after the first two lines.
It worked for me some times that reset did not work. I did not try the
other methods you state.
Antonio
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> 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
>
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