On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Wright wrote: > I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display. It seems > that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127 > characters. I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'. I've tried 'reset', > but that doesn't help. All of my virtual terminals are hosed. For now I > can telnet in, but eventually I'd like to be able to work at the machine > itself, and I'd like to avoid rebooting if I can. The problem started after > I droped out of X, after installing Blackbox 5. Any ideas on how to fix the > problem?
There's a few mentioned in the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO (in /usr/doc/HOWTO with a doc-linux-* package installed). You log into the afflicted virtual terminal and these commands (which you'll probably have to type blindly...) - echo -e \\033c - tput reset - setfont
