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

2002-04-22 Thread Roach, Mark R. 
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



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

2002-04-16 Thread Karsten M. Self 
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?

Peace.

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Virtual consoles filled with... test pattern?

2002-04-15 Thread Roach, Mark R. 
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 used to, in mandrake, have my console screens filled with a copy of my
X display, and nothing I typed would show up, but hitting enter would
rotate the display. This seems like something similar.

I have a compaq ipaq(desktop) intel 820 video. I am not running
svgatextmode or anything but text on the console. Is there anyway for me
to fix this?

I'm sure rebooting would do it, but it would be nice to know what is
causing this (and I don't want to kill my 96 day - debian unstable -
uptime, I know, lame). 

if anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.

Thanks,

Mark Roach





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