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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