Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 15:13:50 EST


> > What video driver are you using? Fbcon or vgacon? If Fbcon which fbdev
> > driver in particular?
> >
> This would be vgacon, having never figured out if it's even possible
> to get framebuffers working on the machine.
>
> Also, the normal power-saving/screen-saving function of blanking the
> screen is not working.

Vgacon !!! Have you tried putting that video card in another machine and
testing the same kernel? Trust me. When I was a sys admin the first thing
we did was swap hardware into another machine to see if it was a hardware
problem.

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