Very Computer

On several occasions, while working on a SS20 or SS5 in Openwindows and
when either killing the wrong process (killing the X server in the
process) or forcing a logout from within Openwindow (instead of quitting
OW and THEN logging out), the console gets totally screwed up, filling up
with junk characters  & such. After this, you cannot even logon, cause you
can't read what the machine is displaying. The machine is ok, cause you
can telnet into it and all is working fine; it's just that the console
display gets totally confuzzed.

How do you reset just the console, without having to reboot the whole thing ?

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Campus Queretaro

Quote:>I feel a bit sheepish asking this cause it will probably be something
>absolutely trivial, but...
>On several occasions, while working on a SS20 or SS5 in Openwindows and
>when either killing the wrong process (killing the X server in the
>process) or forcing a logout from within Openwindow (instead of quitting
>OW and THEN logging out), the console gets totally screwed up, filling up
>with junk characters  & such. After this, you cannot even logon, cause you
>can't read what the machine is displaying. The machine is ok, cause you
>can telnet into it and all is working fine; it's just that the console
>display gets totally confuzzed.

        kbd_mode problem.  Log in from remote and as root do
                "kbd_mode -a"

        colormap problem.  (gf = bg = smae color)
                You need something like "clear_colormap" which
                isn't standard.

The solaris FAQ says:

3.20) And what about screendump, screenload and clear_colormap?

    You can FTP Jef's screenload, screendump, etc., if you need that
    functionality, and for free you get a pixrect (clone) library.
    Get one of these:
            ftp.netcom.com:/pub/jef/raster-pixrect_30dec93.tar.Z
            ee.lbl.gov:/raster-pixrect_30dec93.tar.Z

    The 4.1.x versions of these programs will not run under
    Solaris 2.2 or later.  The pixrect BCP library is no
    longer supported.

    --- end of excerpt from the FAQ

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