[plug] TNT2 and console weirdness...

[Campbell, David (Ex AS17)]

Trev,

Did ^V<esc>c reset the terminal?

(That sequence is "<CNTL>+V" "<ESCAPE>" "c" (lowercase c) <ENTER>),
go try that sequence on any ANSI compatible console and see what
happens.

David Campbell 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Trevor Phillips [SMTP:phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au]
> Sent:	Monday, February 26, 2001 2:53 PM
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> Subject:	[plug] TNT2 and console weirdness...
> 
> And here's another one I mis-sent, which is still a big issue:
> 
> On the same troublesome Lab image I'm setting up, the PCs have TNT2 cards.
> Running X4.0.2, if I Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to the text console, the text
> character
> set is all garbled. Switching between the X server and text console
> doesn't
> seem to fix it, but restarting the X server DOES seem to fix it, at least
> for a
> while.
> 
> Does anyone know what's going on here? (I'm new to nvidia cards and their
> issues...)
> 
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