Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone > > pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I > > frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with re

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Phillip Rulon
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Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Remco van 't Veer
I had a similar problem with S3 ViRGE with XF86_SVGA, the console character set got fd up after switching from X to a VC. I used to fix this by running "setfont" (from the kdb package) after every switch.. HTH, Remco On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:48, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone > pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I > frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or > ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to re