On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 13:07, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 15, 2002, Roach, Mark R. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]