Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel lockups with 2.0.3x | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 26 Jul 1998 02:17:27 +0200 |
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"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.
-Andi
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