If it's any good to you Rob, I could run savetextmode on my machine and post it to you. I'd hate to see you lose your uptime :)
Can anyone on the list see a reason why this wouldn't work ? Ivan. On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 01:58:03AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >