On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:50:54 -0800, you wrote: > >|> TTY1 went bonkers last night. I had done "pr XF86Config | less." >|> Halfway down the second page it started printing the old IBM text based >|> graphic characters. (At least that's what they look like.) Upper case >|> and numbers look ok, except for a few oddities, eg. the underscore is a >|> space and the + is a right arrow. --just found the underscore, it's >|> 's'. > >Try typing `reset' on tty1 > >To view XF86Config on the console you should just do: > > less XF86Config > >The pr command readies the file for printing, so what you're seeing on >the screen, I suppose, are the control sequences that are meant to >determine how the printer handles the printing. > >If that's the right diagnosis, then reset should return the console to >normal. > >This has nought to do with emacs though, has it? > >Jim Thanks Jim and Chris. 'reset' worked like a charm. Jim, the diagnosis was wrong but the prescription worked anyway. I could still type in a command, such as 'ps aux' and get the expected output, lower case looking like gibberish; upper case and numerals appearing normal. My lower case input was echoed as gibberish. I was in fact eyeballing prior to sending to the printer. tty2 handled that fb.
No, I wasn't in emacs. Tnx again guys, and especially for not advising RTFM since I had no idea which FM. gt
