On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > wayne wrote: > > > > Hi Aaron, > > I run RedHat and I get the same thing. > > I don't have a solution for you. > > Wayne > > > > Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > > > > Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green > > > blinking 'D' will appear at a certain position on the screen. When and where > > > it appears seems to be random. It will scroll and can be 'overwritten', just > > > like normal text. > > > > > > I've seen this about 8 times in the past six days (I apt-get update every > > > day or three).. It's always a green blinking 'D', never another > > > letter|color|state. > > > > > > Anyone experienced this? Anyone know what might be causing it? > > I've seen it too, don't remember exact situation, I think it usually > appears when I'm shutting down and X server exits. I don't remember > seeing it in other cases (e.g. just switching to console) but I don't > use concole (VTs) much... > > I have voodoo III, X 4.x, don't remember seeing it with X 3.x > > what video cards do you (=who had seen the mysterious green D) have? > > erik Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, same thing here. :-( Happens when switching from X to VT. I have no idea either why is this happening, but it is extremely annoying. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- GPG key-id: 1024D/DF04A255 Dmitriy AA16 8FAB 74E1 3511 83D0 9F4B F087 CEC9 DF04 A255 Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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