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Re: Virtual consoles filled with... test pattern?



on Mon, Apr 15, 2002, Roach, Mark R. (mrroach@uhg.net) wrote:
> This is a very strange variation on a problem I experienced
> occasionally in mandrake. My console windows are now filled with
> vertical lines.  Mostly purples, but all sorts of other colors too.
> nothing I type shows up on the screen. It looks like some kind of test
> pattern.

I generally chalk this up to a bad video driver.  There's no way other
than a reboot to fix the issue AFAIK.  Long term, it's to get your
driver right.  What versions of Debian and XFree86?

Peace.

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