Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel lockups with 2.0.3x | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 26 Jul 1998 02:26:08 +0200 |
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:
> "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net> writes: > > > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > The entire screen was shifted a random amount to either the left > > or the right (depending on how you look at it. The bottom 2 > > inches went black, with the odd random colored pixels showing up > > here and there, in diagonal lines - not straight lines though, > > roughly diagonal, and equally spaced every so many cm on the > > screen at the bottom. A couple windows were only partially drawn > > on the screen (partially updated). The X cursor was on the > > desktop, but froze. My mouse and keyboard were totally dead. No > > LED's either... A couple other black patches were here and there > > on the screen. > > The new console code sometimes tries to write a kernel message to the > screen when it shouldn't. This could be caused by this if your x > server/graphic card really does not like that.
Sorry. Ignore that. I somehow thought you were refering to a 2.1 kernel, but on 2.0.35 that's not the fact of course.
-Andi
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