On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:06:38PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:48:00PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote: > > > > Cool. :-) > > So now we have: > > > > reset > > stty sane > > <ctrl>-v <esc> c > > > > to restore a messed up text interface. > > > > Groetjes, Ookhoi > > > > don't forget setfont - maybe we can start a collection :) > > But the original question referred to an svgalib messed up console which is > quite a bit different. > > Ivan.
In particular, it's different in that none of those did me any good :(. svgalib comes with a couple of utils called "textmode" and "savetextmode" that are supposed to help in exactly my situation ... but the man page says: You do this by being a smart guy and running savetextmode right after booting of your machine, prior to any prob lems. Unluckily for me, I'm not a smart guy. these are both scripts for a couple of restoration utils that take a previous config from a file and reinstate it -- but I have made no such file. My question at this point: is there such a file on my system? could I create one? Or should I just break down and reboot again? If it helps, running textmode at this point changes the multicolored static pattern blinking on my textmode screens to a red static pattern blinking on my screen. Thanks again for the help. Please Cc: to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob -- It's computer hardware, of course it's worth having <g> -- Espy on #Debian