You can try typing reset in the console window. That helped me in the past
Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -----Original Message----- From: Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:33 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console? El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 20:10, Bill Kenworthy escribi�: > Hi, how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console? > > Occaisionally I get an X crash which leaves the consoles in a weird > state. X restarts ok, but all other screens show two copies of whatever > console was running on it before (text is in green!) on the top half and > the bottom half contains the bottom half of whatever is running in X > > The only way I have been able to fix it so far is to reboot! And this > has happened from early Mandrake versions to currently 8.1, various > xfree's, 3 different video cards and two different MB's, but I have > never seen it with redhat (though I have far more experiance with mdk > these days.) > it's strange that you experienced that problems from early versions, i've never heard of such problems before... does it happen while you are running a certain program, or it's a random crash? if it's a program, please tell which one so i'll try it too.. as for the consoles,did you try by opening a program that redraws on the whole screen, like mc ? Damian
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