Well.... nothing seems to get rid of the little critters except shutdown. I had to switch to another VC this time, because something unknown was going on in the first one. It seems to be getting stuck in a different video mode.
Hank -----Original Message----- From: Mike Schmitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles. On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:47:58PM -0400, Hank Fay wrote: > Chris, > > well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. <s> The only thing that > works so far is shutdown.... > > Hank > > > Using VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronn Pimentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:12 AM > To: Christopher Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles. > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual > > console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a > > little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it > > corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6 > > consoles and am forced to reboot. > > > > The way that I get ride of a scrambled console. > 1. Try typing "reset" > 2. Try typing "clear" > 3. Try running "top" This always seems to work. don't know why but it > does. > Try <CTRL>v<CTRL>o<ENTER> -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian! http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linux http://www.debian.org/ ----------- "If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption"
