Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: VGA console fonts corrupted | Date | 19 May 1999 22:21:06 GMT |
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Followup to: <435C366F075ED211B12200204840172D703F2A@PETITSUIX> By author: BROWN Nick <Nick.BROWN@coe.int> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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 >
kill -9 on the X server, definitely.
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