console font is just showing garbage

plisken · 01-09-2005, 02:06 PM

On one of my consoles the font has changed to garbage, basically what I done was cat a compressed file by mistake and it simply threw garbage scrolling onto the screen. Now when I try to do anything on that screen it is simply garbage. All other consoles work fine, ie CTRL-ALT-F2 etc.

I know I can sort it by rebooting, but would ideally like to get it back without doing so, any ideas?

Thanks...

jkobrien · 01-10-2005, 07:21 AM

Try just typing 'reset'. You won't be able to see what you're typing, but it should work anyway. There's a control <key> sequence as well, I think, but I can't remember what it is.

John

lynos · 01-10-2005, 07:40 AM

Yes you can type reset for refreshing the console.
If it doesn't works, you should run

#loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/defkeymap.map.gz (whatever)
#setfont /lib/kbd/consolefonts/default8x16.psfu.gz (whatever)
#reset

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lynos

....from Bosporus

plisken · 01-11-2005, 12:51 PM

The 'reset' done the trick, thank a lot...