Jeffrey Nonken wrote: > It starts up in text mode! > > ... But that's not my problem. I just wanted to see how many I caught > off-guard. :) > > Seriously, this is what happens when I boot: > > http://www.nonken.net/images/console_problem.JPG > > See those shadowy bits? That's not reflection, that's what it looks > like, except the bits are kind of crawling in circles. > > And oh by the way, it's sitting at the login prompt. > > It's a C&T 69000 on-board video processor with 2 meg of memory. Hardly > an exotic card. And it works fine otherwise, it just seems like Ubuntu > is kicking it into a mode it doesn't support. > > Here's my dmesg: http://www.nonken.net/images/console_problem.txt > > Google doesn't tell me much; most people seem concerned with X issues. > > Any hints? Clues? Advice, other than "throw it away and get a real > system?" Jeez, I just want to run Subversion, TikiWiki, and a bug > tracker, I don't need a powerhouse. Why is nothing ever that simple?
Try a different monitor. That looks like the effects of a low-quality or dying monitor. You can also look into fbset, but near as I can tell (I haven't used it) that program is greatly limited by the options available through the usual drivers. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech