On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:53:36PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: | I'm having an odd problem: The text in my consoles is messed up, even | after a reboot. It looks fine when prompting for username and password, | but once I log in the text becomes a mess of random ASCII characters | which render the console unuseable. | | What could cause this, and how can I fix it? I'm running unstable, but | it started a week ago and recent upgrades haven't fixed it (and I don't | see anyone talking about it here).
What happens if you run 'reset' in the console? I know that if one cats a binary file a similar situation can happen (some binary characters are seen as control characters and changes the terminal settings). Running 'reset' resets the terminal to the defaults. It could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't handling properly. -D
