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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Help, vertical lines on screen
- Message-ID: <p34kt4g@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:48:58 GMT
- References: <32146@adm.brl.mil> <1992Aug26.140645.19091@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Aug26.140645.19091@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johnb@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins) writes:
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- | In article <32146@adm.brl.mil> you write:
- | >Ok, I recall seeing someone else discuss the vertical lines across the
- | >screen problem. Of course, I didn't follow the discussions carefully at
- | >the time. If some one could point me at a current archive of this list
- | >or blast me their old versions of the mail I'd greatly appreciate it.
- | >
- | > My problem, I started seeing vertical "streaks" in gl windows.
- | >Usually at random with the problem clearing up after logging in and out.
- | >Now I see vertical lines across just about everything. It appears to be
- | >associated to certain framebuffers. Underlay planes are almost always
- | >hosed. Is this a hardware problem? Is it one that is reasonable to
- | >fix?
- |
- | Well, I have a 4D/220GTX which has vertical streaks, but over
- | EVERYTHING and across logins, even over the pandora "window". I
- | suspect a hardware problem, but I have no way to test it. Is there
- | supposed to be a test suite in /usr/diags that I can use? Where can I
- | get it? It's not on the 4.0.1 CD that I can see...
-
- It is a classic symptom of bad video RAM; at least for some of
- the graphics boards; I assume that is true of the GTX as well.
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