[SLUG] Redhat Wierdness

[Jon Biddell <jon@nospam.fl.net.au>]

Here's one that has me stumped.

I've just blown away an EvilWare/NT server and installed Redhat 6.0, only 
because I don't have the 6.2 CD here.

Initially I started with Mandrake, then SuSE 6.3 (used on the desktop with 
no problems), then the Mrs got me a copy of Macmillan, and now Redhat, and 
they ALL have the same problem.

The server is a P200, 128Mb RAM, 1 x 13gb and 1 x 6.4gb drives, SCSI card 
with 24Gb DAT attached. Nothing special (all right, maybe the DAT is, but 
it was FREE !!). The video card is a Matrox Millennium II 8Mb and has the 
"Rainbow Runner" video capture daughter board (somply haven't had time to 
remove it).

Whenever I start X, I get screen corruption. Going back to text mode, I get 
vertical dotted lines and the characters are "broken" - i.e. pixels 
missing, etc.

Firstly I thought the Video RAM was at fault, so I did some fairly 
intensive testing on it, and it is fine. It appears (to me) to be something 
in the way Linux is driving this card. While I could accept this if the 
problem was in graphics mode only (i.e. X), it's happening in TEXT mode as 
well.

Anyone have any ideas (trying another video card is a post-Mothers Day 
project).

Jon

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