I feel like addressing the third point... On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:08:07AM -0700, Dr. Denny Scronek wrote: > 3. He had to wipe my old crap and install a new OS from a stick ... > seemed to go quickly because I have a fast beast.
I first tried booting his system with SystemRescueCD (gentoo-based) to see if I could access his Xubuntu installation from there and either fix X or back things up to prep for re-installation. His console was totally unreadable in both SystemRescueCD and Xubuntu, so I attributed it to a hardware issue -- in hindsight, it was more likely a driver issue or some other setting. I don't think it was framebuffer; the rescue stick was supposed to boot without it. In the interest of time and the possibility that things were beyond fixing, I did not try the other boot options SystemRescueCD had to offer. However, I'm certain X would've worked. Then, things could've been either fixed or backed up instead of wiped. His laptop now runs Debian squeeze. X works fine. Console remains unreadable. I found a thread from 2005 on LQ that describes the issue: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/display-garbled-not-corrupted-in-linux-console-sessions-376463/ Eric _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
