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

["Roach, Mark R." <mrroach@uhg.net>]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 13:07, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 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?

X is version 4.1.0-10 on unstable

and, I misstyped, my video card is an i810 (uses the i810 driver in X)

would use of frame buffer for X make any difference, you think?

Thanks,

Mark Roach



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