[H-GEN] oddities in console

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Rick Phillips wrote:

> 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.

The problems do not relate to X, also the do not apply if you are not
using the kernels vga console driver. Do you know the configuation of
your kernel?


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

The likley hood of that is so small I'd need and Infinite Improbability
Drive just to figure it out ... where are Marvin and Eddy when you need
them ;)

Nikolai


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