On: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 15:02:09 -0400 Hank Fay writes:
>
> Cool. Thanks.
> How would I hook this in to run whenever I come out of X?
If you call x using startx, just create a alias.
alias startx="/usr/bin/X11/startx; "
Torsten
ebian-user
Subject: RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
Don't know where I got this little script - but it usually fixes most
console problems for me...
#!/bin/sh
# fixvt 1.00
# Fixes console corruption from vt bombs and the like
#(c) 1994 Brian Stoler -- [EMAIL PROTECT
Don't know where I got this little script - but it usually fixes most
console problems for me...
#!/bin/sh
# fixvt 1.00
# Fixes console corruption from vt bombs and the like
#(c) 1994 Brian Stoler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#Freely redistributable under the GPL 2
#Mail me any chang
m: David B. Teague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 1998 6:27 AM
To: Hank Fay
Cc: debian-user
Subject: RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Hank Fay and others wrote:
> Well you could also try typing
>
> setfont default8x16
>
> This is the o
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Hank Fay and others wrote:
> Well you could also try typing
>
> setfont default8x16
>
> This is the only thing that would sort out an old Avance card that I
> have when i exitted from X to a VC. But I'm not optimistic, as my
> problem affected *all* VCs.
[..]
> Yup; it affe
--Original Message-
From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 10:39 AM
To: Hank Fay
Cc: Mike Schmitz; debian-user
Subject: RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Hank Fay wrote:
> Well nothing seems to get rid of the little cr
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Hank Fay wrote:
> Well nothing seems to get rid of the little critters except shutdown. I
> had to switch to another VC this time, because something unknown was going
> on in the first one. It seems to be getting stuck in a different video
> mode.
Well you could also tr
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Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:01 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:47:58PM -0400, Hank Fay wrote:
> Chris,
>
> well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. The only thing that
> wor
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>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ronn Pimentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:12 AM
> To: Christopher Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug
esday, August 12, 1998 10:12 AM
To: Christopher Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
> console and I
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
> console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
> little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
> corrupts
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> > Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
> > sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
> > from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.
>
> ^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . t
st 11, 1998 4:42 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
Shaleh writes:
> Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like
> gibberish but type it anyway and hit return. This USUALLY works.
In some cases you may need to type
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
> console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
> little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
> corrupts the console every
Shaleh writes:
> Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like
> gibberish but type it anyway and hit return. This USUALLY works.
In some cases you may need to type control-j instead of return.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
> Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
> sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
> from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.
^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . try ^Q if this freezes
things.
rick
>> "CB" == Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[answered by Shaleh]
CB> Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
CB> sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
CB> from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.
I don't
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:
: Hi,
:
: Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
: console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
: little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
: corrupts the console e
Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like
gibberish but type it anyway and hit return. This USUALLY works. I am
known for letting grep go through binary files. Has the same effect as
you describe. Also try ^o^u or ^u^o (I forget the sequence). This
seems to help when not
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