RH Strange Behaviour

Grant Cullen grant.cullen-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 28 21:15:53 UTC 2003


Your post indicated that you relocated the box, no other changes.  That
being true possibly your video card may need to be reseated.

Grant Cullen
JADALL Consulting Ltd.
grant.cullen-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
416-706-4447

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org]On Behalf Of Kareem
Shehata
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 14:02
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: RH Strange Behaviour


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:06, MERC wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope someone can give me a hand... I've been happily using my RH9
without any problems until two days ago, when I shut it down to relocate the
box.
> Once I restarted the machine, it made this sequence:
> 1. Displays the usual kernel selection screen
> 2. Displays the verbose startup, everything looks ok
> 3. Displays the usual D.O.S.-like window with the login user prompt
> 4. A distorted image appears in the whole window!
> 5. Seems that it knows something went wrong and...
> 6. Returns the sequence to step 3.
>
> It goes endlessly like that...Usually it went through steps 1-3 and in
step 4, the login window would appear.
>
> Any clue on what is happening and how to solve it?

Sounds like X is having issues with your video card.  Have a look at
your X86Config, possibly reduce the default resolution.  Either that or
ctrl-alt-plus or ctrl-alt-minus at the login screen.

Good luck!

Kareem

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