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Re: X exits into unreadable screen



on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults (bstults@soc.ufl.edu) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
> screen that comes up is unreadable.  It is a black screen with lots of 
> vertical white lines of varying width.  When I type, it just produces 
> more verticle white lines where the text should be.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Sounds like a bad graphics card and/or configuration.

What's your hardware?  Probably want to post your XF86Config file
(appropriate version if you're running XF86v4), might look through your
X server logs as well.

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