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Re: [Sheflug] Weird Consoles

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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:14:40 +0100
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On Saturday 27 Apr 2002 9:56 pm, James Wallbank wrote:

> Tony at Access Space said that he thinks it's some kind of memory
> location error with the display...but I'm not so sure. Have you any
> thoughts? Have you seen anything like this before?

Does it only occur when running X? It sounds like X is clobbering data in the 
framebuffer for the console. I would suggest looking through XFree86 errata, 
or if you are using a framebuffer console, using VGA text mode instead (you 
can do this through kernel parameters).
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