tty in weird character mode

tty in weird character mode

[Cheryl Homiak]

The tty problem reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I don't know how to
explain this technically, but it usually happens when you've accidentally
put a file through "more' that wasn't really text but didn't give you a
complaint from more, or if you accidentally use less when you should have
used zless. Can't think of other incidents where it happens though there
probably are others. Anyway, even though you can quit the program, what
appears on your console from then on, whether typing or reading, is not
intelligible; i don't know if it's converting to binary or another
character set--I would think maybe binary. Neither logging out (you can
do it but your loggin prompt and command prompt after you've logged in
come out in the same characters) or killing
the tty does any good and while I can use the rest of my system fine, if I
really want that tty back I eventually have to succumb and reboot. Is there
a way around this? I hope I've explained it well enough for somebody to
know what I'm talking about. I suppose I could make it happen and paste
some of the result here but I'd rather not do it.
Thanks.

-- 
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: tty in weird character mode

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yup. Type the following 2 lines, without worrying what actually gets
displayed as you type:

reset
stty sane

. That should make things usable again.

Greg


On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:31PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> The tty problem reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I don't know how to
> explain this technically, but it usually happens when you've accidentally
> put a file through "more' that wasn't really text but didn't give you a
> complaint from more, or if you accidentally use less when you should have
> used zless. Can't think of other incidents where it happens though there
> probably are others. Anyway, even though you can quit the program, what
> appears on your console from then on, whether typing or reading, is not
> intelligible; i don't know if it's converting to binary or another
> character set--I would think maybe binary. Neither logging out (you can
> do it but your loggin prompt and command prompt after you've logged in
> come out in the same characters) or killing
> the tty does any good and while I can use the rest of my system fine, if I
> really want that tty back I eventually have to succumb and reboot. Is there
> a way around this? I hope I've explained it well enough for somebody to
> know what I'm talking about. I suppose I could make it happen and paste
> some of the result here but I'd rather not do it.
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
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Re: tty in weird character mode

[Doug Sutherland]

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-4.html

Re: tty in weird character mode

[Cheryl Homiak]

Apparently I'm not the only one ever to have done this!!!
Thanks to Greg for the solution and Doug for the resource.



-- 
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: tty in weird character mode

[David Csercsics]

>The tty problem reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I don't know how to
>explain this technically, but it usually happens when you've accidentally
>put a file through "more' that wasn't really text but didn't give you a
>complaint from more, or if you accidentally use less when you should have
>used zless. Can't think of other incidents where it happens though there
>probably are others. Anyway, even though you can quit the program, what
>appears on your console from then on, whether typing or reading, is not
>intelligible; i don't know if it's converting to binary or another
>character set--I would think maybe binary. Neither logging out (you can
>do it but your loggin prompt and command prompt after you've logged in
>come out in the same characters) or killing
>the tty does any good and while I can use the rest of my system fine, if I
>really want that tty back I eventually have to succumb and reboot. Is there
>a way around this? I hope I've explained it well enough for somebody to
>know what I'm talking about. I suppose I could make it happen and paste
>some of the result here but I'd rather not do it.
>Thanks.

Well have you tried just typing reset at your prompt. That will cause
the shell to reset your terminal so that it works correctly.

Re: tty in weird character mode

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Have you tried typing

reset

when the problem happens?  That usually clears it up for me.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:31PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> The tty problem reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I don't know how to
> explain this technically, but it usually happens when you've accidentally
> put a file through "more' that wasn't really text but didn't give you a
> complaint from more, or if you accidentally use less when you should have
> used zless. Can't think of other incidents where it happens though there
> probably are others. Anyway, even though you can quit the program, what
> appears on your console from then on, whether typing or reading, is not
> intelligible; i don't know if it's converting to binary or another
> character set--I would think maybe binary. Neither logging out (you can
> do it but your loggin prompt and command prompt after you've logged in
> come out in the same characters) or killing
> the tty does any good and while I can use the rest of my system fine, if I
> really want that tty back I eventually have to succumb and reboot. Is there
> a way around this? I hope I've explained it well enough for somebody to
> know what I'm talking about. I suppose I could make it happen and paste
> some of the result here but I'd rather not do it.
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Sound card recommendations?

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone can recommend a sound card for use on a machine
dual booting Win xp and Fedora core?
My machine came with the ac97 audio chipset onboard.  The ac97 worked well
enough in Windows, but under Linux, I had timing problems that made festival
and other synths sound like they were on speed.  I know there are
workarounds to this but i decided that the best thing would be to use a
higher end card that didn't experience these issues.  Therefore, I installed
an SB live.
The soundblaster works perfectly under Linux but not so well under Windows.
I use jaws and am experiencing the crackling speech with eloquence problem
as documented in the FS knowledge base.  I have tried the workarounds
suggested by fs, and neither of them are perfect.
In short, I am looking for a card that is supported and works well  out of
the box with both operating systems without the need to install any  third
party drivers and/ or patches.

If anyone knows of such a beasty, I would be much obliged for the
information.

thanks,

Re: tty in weird character mode

[Garrett Klein]

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Hello,

	What you need to do is, from the tty that's giving you 
problems, type reset. You might have to press control-j to get the 
command to run, since your enter key may be hosed (look at the manpage 
for reset for more info on that). HTH.

Garrett

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:31PM 
- -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> The tty problem reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I don't know how to
> explain this technically, but it usually happens when you've accidentally
> put a file through "more' that wasn't really text but didn't give you a
> complaint from more, or if you accidentally use less when you should have
> used zless. Can't think of other incidents where it happens though there
> probably are others. Anyway, even though you can quit the program, what
> appears on your console from then on, whether typing or reading, is not
> intelligible; i don't know if it's converting to binary or another
> character set--I would think maybe binary. Neither logging out (you can
> do it but your loggin prompt and command prompt after you've logged in
> come out in the same characters) or killing
> the tty does any good and while I can use the rest of my system fine, if I
> really want that tty back I eventually have to succumb and reboot. Is there
> a way around this? I hope I've explained it well enough for somebody to
> know what I'm talking about. I suppose I could make it happen and paste
> some of the result here but I'd rather not do it.
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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