[69580] in Hotline Meeting
Re: frumious-bandersnatch (ESG cluster) video broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Glasser)
Fri Nov 7 12:44:06 2003
Message-Id: <200311071744.hA7Hi3cM011949@lockpick.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:13:02 EST."
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:44:03 -0500
David Glasser writes:
> 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?
Lou did a reinstall of Athena, but it still suffers from the
same problem. I really don't think it's a software issue.
--dave
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David Glasser
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