Re: Weird characters in virtual terminal consoles from (CTRL-ALT) F2 to F6 and over F7

From	Gianluca Renzi <icjtqr@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Weird characters in virtual terminal consoles from (CTRL-ALT) F2 to F6 and over F7
Date	2025-12-18 06:50 +0100
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Hello,
I saw your Reddit's post, wrote a comment, and write to Debian Linux kernel
mailing list as soon as I discovered changing the kernel solved the issue.
Sorry for noise... 😀

Il gio 18 dic 2025, 05:43 forum4ll@verizon.net <forum4ll@verizon.net> ha
scritto:

> Everyone,
>
> I am surprised this group has responded to my Reddit post.  I am the OP
> who found this issue of he character © covering the entire virtual
> consoles from Ctrl-Alt F2 to F6 and F8 to F12.  It first came to my
> attention whenever I boot up, the last screen before the desktop is a
> screen full of ©'s. And whenever I shutdown, the first screen is again
> the character © covering all of the output of the shutdown. Fortunately
> this issue has not affected my normal computing habits. The Debian 11 OS
> seems to run OK on this stock Dell Inspiron 620. I will follow this thread
> to see if this could be resolved.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Lyman aka Whirligig_FPV
>

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