> >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > >>screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > >>vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces > >>more verticle white lines where the text should be.
> > It is likely that your SVGA registers were corrupted by X crashing in > > this way. The only solutions are: > > 1. reboot > > 2. start X and live without consoles for now I´m getting this behaviour on my laptop since about 3-4 weeks ago, but the only package I upgraded was sendmail... The best weirdo is that since then my display even boots, let me show... +-------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | +--------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +--------------------------+ | | | | | | | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ..something not quite right. I don´t have the slightest idea why this is happening all of a sudden, but thought it some weird laptop-only-problem. cheers, &rw -- -- Ooh, how perverse! Still, it'd be pretty cool for hack value... -- - me about doing it the "obvious" way ----
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