-----Original Message----- From: Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:27 PM Subject: Re: My terminal is in a weird state
>Mark Wright wrote: >> I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display. It seems >> that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127 >> characters. I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'. I've tried 'reset', >> but that doesn't help. All of my virtual terminals are hosed. For now I >> can telnet in, but eventually I'd like to be able to work at the machine >> itself, and I'd like to avoid rebooting if I can. The problem started after >> I droped out of X, after installing Blackbox 5. Any ideas on how to fix the >> problem? > >Try logging in the host from the network and run "kbd_mode -a" as >root. This should fix the case when the keyboard was not properly >restored when switching to virtual terminal from the X server. I figured out the problem - the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO had the answer - type 'setfont' at the prompt. Now I have to go read it and figure out what I just did... Mark.
