[plug] Resetting tty's

[Bill Kenworthy]

Unfortunately, didnt work.  I think its the mode the actual video card
is running in when switched to one of the virtual consoles.  When X went
funny it must have set them to something like 1024x768 in text mode (or
an equivalent as thats a graphics mode)

BillK

On 17 Aug 2001 18:19:32 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > I have managed to screw up the consoles - tiny tiny green font, doubled
> > across the screen (about 256 characters wide!!).  Did it by setting a
> > remote vnc session to use gnome whilst I already had a gnome session
> > running locally.  Live and learn ...
> > 
> > Rescued X, but how do I reset the consoles to a sane setting - stty sane
> > didnt work.
> 
> Is reset/tset(1) of any assistance? Saves my consoles & xterms when I do
> something like cat /bin/ls that dumps random binary stuff at the terminal.
> Also learnt the trick echo -e '\033c' somewhere, might've even been plug
> but if either then reset is your safer bet. Unless it's entirely unrelated
> to either. Worth a shot
> 
> B.
>