"Dr. Richard W. Tibbs" wrote: > I have tried dachstein rc2 on an IBM Aptiva with > a ATI Rage II PCI video card/ 2.048 Mbytes, and the original IBM monitor > (supervga 1024x768.) > During the configuration menus, there is invariably a sudden conversion > to unreadable characters everywhere on the screen. > It looks like some old dos machine that has been inadvertently put into > graphics mode. > This glitch occurs at some random point in time, but always upon exit > from a menu or edit screen. > > The keyboard is still functional, although you can't read what you type. > The command "reset" > causes a return to character mode. (It was just a guess... but it worked!)
It sounds like some sort of font is being loaded. Believe it or not, the command 'reset' is standard UNIX (at least it is now :) Another good one to remember is: stty sane ...for when your terminal is behaving very strangely. _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
