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SubjectVGA console fonts corrupted
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Kernel 2.2.7 on standard PC, VGA text mode console, Virge/DX video card.

Yesterday I noticed that the shape of several letters were trashed on the
console. On investigation I found that the characters affected were
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
- that is, 40 through 4F hex. Had to reboot to get things back to normal.
I presume that something had trashed the video card's character generator
memory.

Two possible culprits:
1) Crashme was running
2) I had done "kill -9" on the X server, which occasionally leads to a
second or two of screen fireworks

Where is the smart money going ?

Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)








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