Messages in this thread | | | From | BROWN Nick <> | Subject | VGA console fonts corrupted | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 11:14:04 +0200 |
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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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