Re: 1.3.72 instability

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:24:53 +0100


Steve Ginn:

: ... Shortly after that, my mouse stopped working and I tried
: CTRL-ALT-F[1..4] in an attempt to get back to my standard console and the
: system dies with the typical 'attractive' display of colored ascii
: characters/symbols arranged in vertical bars on the screen.

So, something overwrites your screen memory.
I bet that it is the VC scrolling bug.
I submitted a patch yesterday. Probably it will be fixed
(if I didnt make any mistake) in 1.3.75.

Andries