[H-GEN] oddities in console

[Rick Phillips]

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I am running Kernel 2.4.18 (Mandrake) on several machines all with different
video cards (S3, nVidia Vanta, SiS, Trio 64) some of which are AGP and
I have no such problems with any of them.

I just flicked on the monitor on our fax server (Trio 64 card - PCI), which
was left with
a shell open running under XFree86 4.2.0.  The last time I turned this
monitor
on was last Sunday.  It fired up fine just now and allowed me to close the
shell without
drama.

Perhaps the card(s) are, coincidentally, crook!

Regards,

Rick Phillips


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On 25 Jun 2002, Robert Stanford wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 15:35, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
>
> I'm getting the same problem, i'm running 2.4.18.

I can verify that it is card independant. The machine it mainly effects
me on has an S3 Virge card in it, but it has happened to other machines
I have - and all of them hae different video cards.


> it crashes more often when using the built in agp driver in the nvidia
> kernel module.

I don't own an AGP video card (niether does work) so it's not that :)


> Whats your system do?  If I do ctrl-alt-f1 the screen sometimes just
> goes blank and I have to reboot. Not every time but enough for me to
> avoid doing it.

Normally it happens at night while I am not infront of the machine, I
turn the monitor back on in the morning to find it has a blank display
and is switching vt's but not displaying anything (judicious use of num
lock is a good test).  Generally the solution is a reboot, but I do it
from another machine so i can do it safely. It is a little annoying
though.



Nikolai


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