On Aug 5 2007 21:26, Jeff Chua wrote: >Here's what see when I "cat /dev/vcs1" ... > > ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ > >The pattern repeats and fill the whole screen.
That looks pretty much like all-one-bits (ÿ = 255). What about vcsa1 (use hexdump -C)? Jan --