Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 13 May 1996 14:48:49 +1000 (EST) | From | Matty <> | Subject | Re: Console screwed up - was: Re: Kernels -in and out |
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Albert Cahalan ----- > > From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net> > ..snip... > Any setup with suid root software that > gets IO privileges is broken. Any setup that lets the user jam > the console into some weird keyboard/video mode is broken. > I hope some of this stuff can get fixed in post-2.0 Linux. > > ----- End of forwarded message from Albert Cahalan ----- > I second that. Have you ever tried to reset a virtual terminal > to non |||| semigraphical mode after cat-ing a binary file?
Yes :)
> Even exit and hitting ctrl-d on the login, which helps on other > systems, does not here. Any known ways to reset the terminal > to readable characters?
Try typing the following:
echo CTRL-v ESC-c
this usually works (I think it's vt100 stuff - so YMMV with other terminals...)
What I think Alan meant was a SVGAlib program that puts the console into a weird mode - I've had several do this to me - you can't reset the console with the above sequence, nor using "reset" nor anything else I could think of. (Is there a way of fixing without rebooting??)
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