"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.

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