From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 00:42:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18794 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18752 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:41:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA22860; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:41:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resetting a vty In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > Sometimes I by mistake cat a binary file to the console. > > It then goes into an "alternative" charset, so everything afterwards is > unreadable gibberish. > > Sometimes (mostly on *inux) the tabsetting is also screwed up. > A xterm can also be ruined this way. Yuck. I've done this, the way I usually deal with it is to log out and log back in. If the video font is messed up try running vidcontrol VGA_80x25 This can be fun to run when you can't see it :) > Is there a way to _completely_ reset a vty? As mentioned, `reset' is the best, or `tset syscons'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message