[69432] in Hotline Meeting
frumious-bandersnatch (ESG cluster) video broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Glasser)
Fri Oct 31 13:13:04 2003
Message-Id: <200310311813.h9VID2md024196@torque-wrench.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
cc: amdragon@MIT.EDU
From: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:13:02 -0500
I sent mail to hotline on 10/17 requesting a replacement
for the video card for frumious-bandersnatch in the ESG cluster
in 24-6. I do not believe it has been replaced (I did not
receive any confirmations, though the casetracker case seems
to be gone); howevever, since then the machine has gone from
cosmetic problems to instability. At this point, booting into
Linux Athena results in a screen where all spaces show up as single
quotes as it boots up; and then X fails to come up properly. Booting off
of a CD of the LNX-BBC distribution, we can get it to come up to
X, but if we put it in 1280x640 resolution, the bottom quarter
of the screen is garbage. I suspect that the problem is still in
the video card; can we have it replaced soon and see if it helps?
Thanks,
dave
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