[vox-tech] Video problem with Ubuntu Server install

Jeffrey Nonken jjn.lugod at nonken.net
Mon Sep 22 17:02:38 PDT 2008


Yeah, looks pretty bad, dunnit?

But that doesn't explain why some of the text is scrambled. The whole  
point was: there's nothing wrong with the monitor. If it was a monitor  
problem, the login prompt might be distorted, but how would it be  
substituting letters?


On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:

> Try a different monitor.  That looks like the effects of a low- 
> quality or
> dying monitor.
>
> You can also look into fbset, but near as I can tell (I haven't used  
> it)
> that program is greatly limited by the options available through the  
> usual
> drivers.


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