Re: broken vt output

[Michael Erskine <msemtd@yahoo.co.uk>]

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:04:52AM +0100, Michael Erskine wrote:
> > I have a bizarre problem with one of my Sarge boxes: when I boot to the
> > default runlevel (2 - with KDE) the virtual terminals on the console (vt1
> > to vt6 - regular console - not fb) seem to be displaying the wrong data!
> > I can work on the vts but I can't see what I'm typing -- I get "old" data
> > as output: to begin with it's messages produced during the boot process
> > and eventually seemingly random data, very colourful and occasionally
> > blinking! This set of output data eventually repeats itself regardless of
> > whatever is typed as input and whatever output is "expected". Lots of
> > fun! The vts are rendered rather useless but I tend to use X nowadays
> > (not good when the nvidia-glx breaks every kernel upgrade though!) so I
> > can always "chvt 7". Booting to single user (grub provides "recovery
> > mode") gives me the single vt that works as expected.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?

I rolled back to a 2.6.7 kernel to fix DVD writing and the problem has 
disappeared. I also temporarily switched to nv from nvidia under X so it's 
one or the other or a combination!

Regards,
Michael.