> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:04:52AM +0100, Michael Erskine wrote: > > I have a bizarre problem with one of my Sarge boxes: when I boot to the > > default runlevel (2 - with KDE) the virtual terminals on the console (vt1 > > to vt6 - regular console - not fb) seem to be displaying the wrong data! > > I can work on the vts but I can't see what I'm typing -- I get "old" data > > as output: to begin with it's messages produced during the boot process > > and eventually seemingly random data, very colourful and occasionally > > blinking! This set of output data eventually repeats itself regardless of > > whatever is typed as input and whatever output is "expected". Lots of > > fun! The vts are rendered rather useless but I tend to use X nowadays > > (not good when the nvidia-glx breaks every kernel upgrade though!) so I > > can always "chvt 7". Booting to single user (grub provides "recovery > > mode") gives me the single vt that works as expected. > > > > Has anyone seen this before?
I rolled back to a 2.6.7 kernel to fix DVD writing and the problem has disappeared. I also temporarily switched to nv from nvidia under X so it's one or the other or a combination! Regards, Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
