On Mon, May 28, 2018, 2:36 AM Glen Strom via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm running Slackware 14.2, 32-bit. The computer is an HP xw4600 desktop > workstation. The video card is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 PCI Express. I use > an Nvidia legacy driver (it's an old machine, probably going on 10 years > old.) > > I stepped away from the machine for a while, and when I cam back the > monitor was fluctuating rapidly and everything was frozen. I had to use the > Magic System key to reboot. > > Upon rebooting, the initial screen had a series of blue vertical lines > running through it. The lilo screen looked fine. When the OS booted I saw a > string of numbers followed by a bizarre combination of upper and lower case > text. > > The boot up sequence ran correctly right up until the machine went into > runlevel 4. The screen stayed dark. I couldn't even switch to a > console--nothing would show. > > I don't have another video card to try. > > Does this sound like a video card issue or might it be something else? I > didn't find anything helpful on searching for an answer. > You may have to reset the console if you didn't sync the system with the magic reboot. The Raising Elephants acronym is helpful here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Maybe try runlevel 1 and try to reset with #stty sane. -- > Glen Strom > [email protected] > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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