Re: VGA console fonts corrupted
Ian Eure (ieure@crosssound.narrows.com)
Tue, 25 May 1999 09:02:25 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> Followup to: <435C366F075ED211B12200204840172D703F2A@PETITSUIX>
> By author: BROWN Nick <Nick.BROWN@coe.int>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Kernel 2.2.7 on standard PC, VGA text mode console, Virge/DX video card.
> >
> > Yesterday I noticed that the shape of several letters were trashed on the
> > console. On investigation I found that the characters affected were
> > @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
> > - that is, 40 through 4F hex. Had to reboot to get things back to normal.
> > I presume that something had trashed the video card's character generator
> > memory.
> >
> > Two possible culprits:
> > 1) Crashme was running
> > 2) I had done "kill -9" on the X server, which occasionally leads to a
> > second or two of screen fireworks
> >
>
> kill -9 on the X server, definitely.
>
Yes. When this occasionally happens to me during a normal X server
[shutdown|exit|crash], a simple `setfont' on the console usually takes
care of things.
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