Reset text console?

Mihawk · Post by **Mihawk** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:06 am

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 ;)

jonathan · Post by **jonathan** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:46 pm

Have you tried either Ctrl-L or (if you can still type) running 'reset'?

jimparis · Post by **jimparis** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:00 pm

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.

Mihawk · Post by **Mihawk** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:37 pm

jimparis, that makes sense... and works. Thanks!

jonathan, Ctrl-L and 'reset' didn't work. Thanks anyway ;)

ralferoo · Post by **ralferoo** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:07 am

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.