[plug] TNT2 and console weirdness...

[Trevor Phillips]

Dennis Plester wrote:
> 
> I had a TNT2 (Diamond V770) that was producing garbled text screens for
> quite a while, but it wasn't obvious except in Linux on a text console. I
> suspect the problem had been there for a long time, but in Windows it didn't
> show itself (as I rarely called up full screen text mode). The problem was
> eventually tracked down to overheating. I don't think that this is your
> problem, but the symptoms were remarkably similar. I would jump to a

No, this isn't the same:
  a) This is consistent over a lab of 20 machines, not 1 video card
  b) There's no gradual corruption - it seems to remap the entire ascii set.
It's all or nothing

I'll try David's suggestion to reset it (a quick fix is better than having to
restart X), and I do plan to investigate driver upgrades (hopefully to the
point where I can demo decent 3D stuff), but as I said, I'm new to NVidia
stuff, and am used to the easy world of adding a line to my apt sources, even
for bleeding edge stuff. ^_^

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