Hello,
When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random graphics characters on my display.
Actually I am blind, and am running brltty which shows "?" characters where there are graphics characters.
My daughter looked at teh screen a few days ago and said there were indeed single and double virtical lines running through the display making it almost impossible to see anything else on the display.
System configuration: Gateway desktop with a radeon 9600 video card, dell 9000 monitor fedora 10 with all updates applied from yum.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW: when I run gnome, and open a terminal window the problem is not present.
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Don Raikes wrote:
When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random graphics characters on my display.
not being able to view your screen makes replying with any more helpful answer.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
what happens if you enter 'clear'?
also, being curious about assistance for impaired vision, i ran a google-linux search of 'brltty' which yielded 27,900 hits. on first page, i found a link,
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/ \ pipermail/accessibility-io/2005-July/000016.html
with a link to brltty mailing list.
http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
if not already on list, you might give it a try.
much luck to you.
peace out.
tc,hago.
g .
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-----Original Message----- From: g [mailto:geleem@bellsouth.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:05 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: weird graphics characters when logged into runlevel 3
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Don Raikes wrote:
When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random graphics characters on my display.
not being able to view your screen makes replying with any more helpful answer.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
what happens if you enter 'clear'?
When I enter clear, the visible display (brltty) seems ok for a few minutes or perhaps a few lines, then I run into the lines again.
My son was watching the system while it was rebooting the other day, and he said that the display is all messed up even as it is rebooting. I think perhaps my video card is failing. also, being curious about assistance for impaired vision, i ran a google-linux search of 'brltty' which yielded 27,900 hits. on first page, i found a link,
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/ \ pipermail/accessibility-io/2005-July/000016.html
with a link to brltty mailing list.
http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
if not already on list, you might give it a try.
much luck to you.
peace out.
tc,hago.
g .
**** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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Don Raikes wrote:
My son was watching the system while it was rebooting the other day, and he said that the display is all messed up even as it is rebooting. I think perhaps my video card is failing.
anything is possible.
being that you said it worked from a desktop terminal, and now your son says it is messed up during boot, i have more wonder.
as further suggestion, power down system, remove cover, remove monitor connector, remove screw holding video card.
remove and reinsert video card, replace screw, replace monitor connector, power back up, press <delete> key to go to bios setup.
if all is well, great. if not, new video card.
if all is well, exit bios setup, reboot to level 3 command line. run '/usr/bin/system-config-display' to resetup monitor.
peace out.
tc,hago.
g .
**** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
Don Raikes wrote:
When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random graphics characters on my display.
not being able to view your screen makes replying with any more helpful answer.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
what happens if you enter 'clear'?
When I enter clear, the visible display (brltty) seems ok for a few minutes or perhaps a few lines, then I run into the lines again.
My son was watching the system while it was rebooting the other day, and he said that the display is all messed up even as it is rebooting. I think perhaps my video card is failing. also, being curious about assistance for impaired vision, i ran a google-linux search of 'brltty' which yielded 27,900 hits. on first page, i found a link,
Try setting the terminal environment variable to a known terminal type: ansi, vt100 or vt102. In the bourne shell: export TERM=<terminal choice> The terminals are listed in /etc/termcap... not in easy to read text.
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