[H-GEN] oddities in console

[James C. McPherson]

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On 26 Jun 2002 21:53:39 +1000 "Robert Stanford" wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 21:19, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> > This is an interesting thought, particularly about the messages to
> > console. However the last time it happened the screensaver was not even
> > close to turning on (I had just started to compose a reply to this
> > list), I do believe that there may be something printing to console but
> > it's is not showing up in any og the log files. I am continuing to
> > suffer with this ATM and lookin gat filing a bug report ... never had to
> > do that for a kernel before.
> I know this sounds stupid (stop laughing chookie) but try booting it
> with init=/bin/bash and leave it for a while. Might possibly help
> seperate the problem being in user or kernel space. What about a serial
> console? Or redirecting console to a printer. Maybe your video card is
> just ratsh#t! Maybe I should stop typing now.

Maybe this has been mentioned already and I haven't seen it, but do you have
power management enabled for your video card either in the kernel or in your
bios? You might find that getting syslogd to run with a mark interval helps
with determining how long it takes for your console to go out for a long
80s style lunch.



James C. McPherson
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