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I'm using slack8, and when I booted it from the cdrom after re-installing so that i could change my lilo.conf and reboot, the fonts onthe console were capital only, no way to change and no effects on the running of programs. Thought it was a quirk even though I've never seen it before.
Now today I started the pc, left setiathome running, came home after a few hours and now it's jumped to capital letters for no reason. No way to get rid of it. Has anyone seen this?
BTW I have linux-2.4.18 and everything works, just in caps. when i am in XFree86 it's ok though. just on the console.....!
No no, you misunderstand - the computer starts out fine, then when it's left for a while it looks like this:
/HOME/ALIM $ LS -AL
rather than this:
/home/alim % ls -al
which is strange. What I mean is that the font is the same, but I lose access to typing lowercase characters, and the shell doesn't seem to care about it either, accepting all uppercase.
Also strange is that after leaving the PC again for a few hours it went away again.
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