Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 14:46:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Ian main <> | Subject | Re: Console screwed up - was: Re: Kernels -in and out |
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> > 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??) > > In many distributions there is a little utility called "restoretextmode" > that claims to save your current vga setup to a file and be able to > restore it again later on (-w and -r respectively) > > I've never looked into what it really does, though... > > Kai
When I have this occur on my system.. Slackware 3.0, I run the setfont utility, and *BANG* all is fine.
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