> Hi, > > I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now > with no problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel > series using debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia > video drivers (I know... I don't like the fact that they sully my > computer either). Anyway, on Monday or Tuesday I did an update / > dist-upgrade (I hadn't upgraded for some time before that) and on > reboot the lcd screen worked fine at the beginning, but at some point, > and always at the same point during the boot, a bunch of vertical green > lines appear (separated by about 5 pixels) and the text seems to become > a series of vertical bars visible between the green bars. At first I > thought this might be a hardware problem, but I ran through the dell > diagnostics and everything works fine. Also it always occurs at the > same point during the boot (presumable when some program starts up, but > I can't tell which one). > > The weird thing is that this occurs BEFORE it enters graphics mode, > long before it starts gdm and X. I was wondering if anyone here has > experienced or know anything about this problem. If I don't hear > anything I'll be bringing the computer into work next week so I can > plug it into the network and access it from my work computer to look > through the boot messages and try to figure out exactly what the cause > is. > > Thanks in advance for your help, I'll update the list if I find > anything more. > > Chris >
This also happened to me during the a recent Sarge install, using the new Sarge installer. It went away when every thing was installed. Not much help, but I think you may want to play with the vga settings in lilo or grub. I think this may be the trouble. -- Kevin C. Smith
