On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:11, Ron Daniel wrote: > The symptoms of the problem are that upon termination of a program, and > it does not appear to be dependent on a program, the screen display goes > haywire. The screen appears to be broken up into about 30 or so > horizontal segments all of which abutt one another vertically and all of > which are joined together by a thin white line from the top right corner > of the segment above to the top left corner of the segment below. All of > this flashes at a rate which, I suspect, would induce epilepsy in any > poor sufferer who happens to be within the field of view of my machine.
Has this started happening recently or is it an ongoing problem? In any case I don't know for sure what's happening. Could be hardware, could be your machine getting too hot for some reason. Could be ACPI or APIC (I can't remember which does what) breaking interrupts. If I were you I'd start by upgrading X and your kernel. Perhaps an upgrade to mandrake 9.1? HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
