on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0500, Andrew Hurt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all. > > Have pretty much had a successful transition from Progeny -> Woody. > > I am beginning to see, now ;-) > > My only real problem lies with the console display after I initialize X. > > When I Ctrl-AltF1-F5 (with X on F7), the characters on 1-5 are > misdisplayed (some as blanks, and others as blocks, &c.).
Try:
$ reset
$ top <return><space><space><space><space><space>
$ vi <return>:q!
...my majick incantation which tends to restore a console screen.
Ideally "reset" does it. I find that a 'top' session with a few screen
updates helps, and 'vi' will restore a lost cursor.
> In an X terminal, the borders of mc are made of '?'
This is a font issue which I've not resolved myself -- sometimes see it,
sometimes don't.
> I have SVGATextMode 80x50x9 at the tail-end of the boot (2.4.12), 'kbd' is
> not installed, and /etc/console-tools/config is unaltered.
>
> I think that my default font is ISO8859-1.
>
> Any thoughts?
Got beer?
SVGATextMode can muck with console fonts (the funky borders you describe
are more common for me in a console session than in X). You might try
rerunning it a few times with different resolutions. There are also
different console fonts (/usr/share/consolefonts/) ...but that doesn't
appear to be your problem.
Peace.
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