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Re: Messed up console



On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:53:36PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
| I'm having an odd problem:  The text in my consoles is messed up, even
| after a reboot.  It looks fine when prompting for username and password,
| but once I log in the text becomes a mess of random ASCII characters
| which render the console unuseable.
| 
| What could cause this, and how can I fix it?  I'm running unstable, but
| it started a week ago and recent upgrades haven't fixed it (and I don't
| see anyone talking about it here).

What happens if you run 'reset' in the console?  I know that if one
cats a binary file a similar situation can happen (some binary
characters are seen as control characters and changes the terminal
settings).  Running 'reset' resets the terminal to the defaults.  It
could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't
handling properly.

-D



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