Submitted 07-Jul-00 by Alexander Skwar:
> Hi all!
>
> I've got a weired problem. When I press a<TAB> on a bash prompt, bash
> lists all the files starting with a. But the output is not nice and
> orderly in 2 or maybe 3 columns, but instead it looks like this:
<snip scrabled output>
> What's going on here? And also when I try to login on the console
> prompt right after booting I cannot really type, ie. keys get all
> messed up and when I press return I see a ^M, the line advances but the
> output stays at the same column.
>
> What in the world did I mess up? Could it be that this has something
> to do with that I installed / hooked up a new monitor?
Not likely. It sounds like you ran a program that used raw i/o and
failed to return the console to the correct state. Assuming that you
have the "magic" SysRq key enabled in your kernel (the mdk and mdkfb
kernels do) try pressing <Meta><SysRq>R which should repair the ^M
problem, and potentially the rest of the output problems.
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