When I restart, it clears itself up, however without fail, spontaneously
reboots itself when the kernel starts to load. The next boot works fine.
I think the reboot happens when the console is initialized.
Now, when I boot using the older kernel after the newer one messes up the
initial reboot still happens, but I don't have the mode switching
problems, and no spontaneous reboot problems thereafter.
Weird stuff!
FWIW, hardware is DX2/66 16 Meg of RAM. ATI Ultra Pro for the card.
Darrell Fuhriman