Dude, wheres my chat log?

[LanceMcPants]

for some reason the little list of things that were typed by other users no longer shows up on the left side of my screen, i have to open console to see if they are talking to me.
fix please?

EDIT: gonna try cl_showtextmsg
EDIT: didn't work in the slightest

[p0rnflakes]

Same problem here, cl_showtextmsg didn't work for me neither.
Any help?

[TopGearStig]

Same problem here, cl_showtextmsg didn't work for me neither.
Any help?

I'm going to try it and hopefully it'll work for me >.>

Really quite a difficult problem.
I reckon if we/I just deleted everything in garrysmod/garrysmod (Except the maps directory xD)
and reinstalled all the mods we actually needed, it'd probably work, but there's got to be an easier way.