Re: Messed Up Console Dialogs

2003-11-13 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:09:09 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get a mouse wheel to work in XWindows on a potato box > and causing colateral damage at the same time. :-) Oops... I meant Woody. It's running Debian 3.0r1 with all the security updates, etc. Time to get som

Messed Up Console Dialogs

2003-11-13 Thread Jacob S.
I'm trying to get a mouse wheel to work in XWindows on a potato box and causing colateral damage at the same time. :-) Noticing there was not XF86Config-4 file, I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and when it asked if I wanted the config file handled by debconf, I said yes. It was working great

Re: Messed up console

2001-09-18 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:01:12AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0400, dman wrote: > > > 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

Re: Messed up console

2001-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0400, dman wrote: > 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 th

Re: Messed up console

2001-09-17 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0400, dman wrote: > 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 th

Re: Messed up console

2001-09-17 Thread dman
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

Messed up console

2001-09-17 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
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