Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 May 1996 19:36:05 +0200 (MESZ) | From | Kai Schulte <> | Subject | Re: Console screwed up - was: Re: Kernels -in and out |
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, Matty wrote:
> What I think Alan meant was a SVGAlib program that puts the console into a > weird mode - I've had several do this to me - you can't reset the console > with the above sequence, nor using "reset" nor anything else I could think > of. (Is there a way of fixing without rebooting??)
In many distributions there is a little utility called "restoretextmode" that claims to save your current vga setup to a file and be able to restore it again later on (-w and -r respectively)
I've never looked into what it really does, though...
Kai
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