I had the same problem some time ago. It would happen when I used less. As time went by more and moreof my consoles would suffer that. It stopped on its own after upgrading to a new kernel (at the time I was using 2.0.0 ) and I guess I must have upgraded less at some point.
I know this isn't much help but try upgrading relevant packges and see what happens. George On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, James Dietrich wrote: > > Several times I have had it happen that after running (and quitting) top > on one of my virtual terminals, the terminal then uses only the bottom > line of the screen. Everything seems to work all right, because I can > type commands and login and logout just fine except for the fact that all > output is restricted to the bottom line. When the terminal is in this > state, top will run and use the entire screen, but it redraws in a strange > way--quite a bit of flickering and blinking at the top of the screen > during each redraw/update. > > FWIW, this only seems to happen after my computer has been up for a > while--a day or two. I am running Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.30. And I > have tried killing all the process on the offending tty, but the problem > still persists. > > Anyone else seen this quirk? Any ideas on how to fix it? I would like to > be able to fix it without rebooting ( it must be possible :-) ) > > Thanks for your help. > > James > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .