[vox-tech] Video problem with Ubuntu Server install

[Jeffrey Nonken]

Very well, my monitor has been voted Most Likely to Fail. I'll bring  
the little black box into work tomorrow and try it on my monitors there.

On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Jeffrey Nonken wrote:
>> 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?
>
> My Dell Inspiron 1525 does some pretty crazy stuff when I jump from  
> X down
> to a normal text terminal.  All of the characters seem to 'warp in'  
> from the
> right.  The photo Jeffrey showed looked kinda similar.
>
> Now... my problem goes away after 1/2 second.  So haven't looked  
> into why,
> or if it even matters.
>
> *shrug*  I hate computers.
>
> -bill!
> _______________________________________________
> vox-tech mailing list
> vox-tech at lists.lugod.org
> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech