-----Original Message----- From: Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> 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. > >More exactly, when the X server is not controlling the console (X >is not on, or you are on a virtual console), kbd_mode without any >arguments should report that the keyboard is in the default (ASCII) >mode. When you are running X, the keyboard should be in the raw >(scancode) mode. This is what you should get when trying kbd_mode >from another host. That doesn't seem to be the problem. I don't think it's a keyboard problem, since the character mangling happens with both characters I've typed and those output from other applications. Even spaces are messed up - any blank space on the screen is converted to 'a's with accent marks. Mark.
