Video issue? boot screen has weird mixed lower case/capitals, no X or consoles
I'm running Slackware 14.2, 32-bit. The computer is an HP xw4600 desktop workstation. The video card is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 PCI Express. I use an Nvidia legacy driver (it's an old machine, probably going on 10 years old.) I stepped away from the machine for a while, and when I cam back the monitor was fluctuating rapidly and everything was frozen. I had to use the Magic System key to reboot. Upon rebooting, the initial screen had a series of blue vertical lines running through it. The lilo screen looked fine. When the OS booted I saw a string of numbers followed by a bizarre combination of upper and lower case text. The boot up sequence ran correctly right up until the machine went into runlevel 4. The screen stayed dark. I couldn't even switch to a console--nothing would show. I don't have another video card to try. Does this sound like a video card issue or might it be something else? I didn't find anything helpful on searching for an answer. -- Glen Strom gstrom57@gmail.com
On Mon, May 28, 2018, 2:36 AM Glen Strom via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm running Slackware 14.2, 32-bit. The computer is an HP xw4600 desktop workstation. The video card is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 PCI Express. I use an Nvidia legacy driver (it's an old machine, probably going on 10 years old.)
I stepped away from the machine for a while, and when I cam back the monitor was fluctuating rapidly and everything was frozen. I had to use the Magic System key to reboot.
Upon rebooting, the initial screen had a series of blue vertical lines running through it. The lilo screen looked fine. When the OS booted I saw a string of numbers followed by a bizarre combination of upper and lower case text.
The boot up sequence ran correctly right up until the machine went into runlevel 4. The screen stayed dark. I couldn't even switch to a console--nothing would show.
I don't have another video card to try.
Does this sound like a video card issue or might it be something else? I didn't find anything helpful on searching for an answer.
You may have to reset the console if you didn't sync the system with the magic reboot. The Raising Elephants acronym is helpful here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Maybe try runlevel 1 and try to reset with #stty sane. --
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