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Re: Console Text Scrambled



Hi,

perhaps your video card does not like the way X shuts down. Maybe typeing
'reset' blindly will help (in a logged in console).

Greetz,
Sebastiaan


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Tyler Braun wrote:

> This morning after shutting down X everything on my console was scrambled. I can
> still type commands and can somewhat distinguish that characters are appearing
> on the screen, but nothing's readable. I can also start X back up without any
> problems.
> 
> Anyone know what might be causing this? And how to fix without a reboot?
> 
> My system's running 2.4.2 kernel and Debian unstable.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Tyler Braun
> tyler@chimptrix.chimp.ca
> 
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