resetting tty1

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 03 May 2007, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> The screen of tty1 is frozen. Hitting all keys got no responsse.
>
> I tried `killall getty`, no luck.
>
> how could I restore it?

This has happened to me many times over the past year or more.  Happens less 
these days...  and it's probably due to flubbing a series of keys but I 
couldn 't tell you which.

What I usually do is to restart the X server......