[Tfug] where are my terminals?

[Ammon Lauritzen]

Earl wrote:
> Any ideas?

Jumping out of X to text-mode is an iffy proposition to begin with.

If you are using the vesa drivers, my experience is that they tend to do 
all sorts of unholy things to your text-mode consoles.

If you are using a custom font setting on the console, it is possible 
that going into X destroys that setting and you wind up back in 80x25 
mode with things scrolled off the edge.

In most cases, the only way I've found to recover from this sort of mess 
is to pick a pristine tty, log in blind, and reset your console font 
(usually something like 'consolechars -f default8x9' will work).

Of course, the minute you go back into X, you are liable to lose these 
settings again. A bit of tricky .profile/.login scripting can save you 
the hassle of the final command, but it still doesn't do anything about 
the need for a blind login.

Ammon