[plug] TNT2 and console weirdness...

[steve]

Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> 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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I had the same problem once with a riva 128. I believe what caused it
was a card seating problem; I removed the card and reinserted it a few
times
and it fixed the problem.