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Mihawk
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 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: Reset text console? |
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I have the problem that after a program crash my program returns to the console but I can't see anything. That means my program switched to graphics mode, crashed and the screen looks like it's frozen but I know that I'm back on the console as I can type commands and stuff. So my question is: is there some command or key combination which lets me to somehow reset the console, so I don't have to reset my ps3 after each crash, cause that happens quite often sometimes when testing and debuging ;)
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jonathan
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you tried either Ctrl-L or (if you can still type) running 'reset'? |
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jimparis
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends on why you can't see anything. If for example it's because you did a PS3FB_IOCTL_ON and the kernel is no longer flipping the screen buffer, you should be able to write a program that just does PS3FB_IOCTL_OFF to fix it. |
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Mihawk
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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jimparis, that makes sense... and works. Thanks!
jonathan, Ctrl-L and 'reset' didn't work. Thanks anyway ;)
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ralferoo
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| jimparis wrote: | | Depends on why you can't see anything. If for example it's because you did a PS3FB_IOCTL_ON and the kernel is no longer flipping the screen buffer, you should be able to write a program that just does PS3FB_IOCTL_OFF to fix it. |
You might also like to use signal() to catch various error conditions (such as ^C, SEGV, etc) and reset the screen in your signal handler before exiting. This is more complicated but ensures your program can't quit and leave things in a bad state. |
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