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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: GF3 firmware error
- Message-ID: <p9cidjg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 22:32:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.185759.22108@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Aug31.185759.22108@serval.net.wsu.edu> rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson) writes:
- | We are experiencing two possibly related problems on one of our machines,
- | perhaps some one might know what the problem is.
- |
- | 1. Occasionally, when a user is logged in at the console, the screen
- | will blank out and stay blank. Sometimes you can still see the
- | popup menus so you can logout (but the popup menus are really dark).
- | Once logged out, or the console process is killed, the colors are
- | restored when the login screen is drawn.
- | This has only started happening recently.
- | (This may be occuring only when the user is logged in overnight
- | after and/or while using SDRC-IDEAS.)
-
- See my posting this weekend about the gamma value issue; I don't
- remember the subject.
-
- | 2. We are also starting to get GF3 firmware errors and the graphics
- | board shuts down. When we restart the machine we get the following
- | error on the terminal on serial port 1:
-
- Can't help on this one, sorry.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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