After my Linux Box has been up for anywhere from a couple of days to a
couple hours, my virtual terminals get sick. What happens is this:
Say I am looking at a simple login screen, I login and work for a minute
or so, then, while I have a full screen of text, the test stops scrolling
correctly. Whatever I do, each new line that appears which should cause
the screen to scroll up a line actually replaces previous bottom line. No
scrolling occurs, I just get to watch the bottom line get repeatedly
overwritten.
Same problem, I believe, has another symptom. Say at this point in the
above situation I start up emacs. Then I press the right arrow (or
C-f) several times. However, instead of the cursor shifting right as
it should, it will just randomly move either left or right. Usually it
will move right a couple of times and then left and right and left again.
Very sporadic. If I enter text now, it is appears to insert where
the cursor appears to be, however it is actually inserted where the cursor
*should* be, not where it is. I can tell this by typing "M-x,
redraw-display" and looking at the havoc I may have accidentally played
with whatever I may have been editing.
The reason I mention this as a virtual terminal problem is because the
sickness slowly infects each vt that I am using, starting with the one I
have been using most.
Thank you for your time. I hope I haven't annoyed anyone, but I haven't
been able to get an answer to this problem in the newsgroups or in any
other mailing lists and wondered if it might actually be a BUG. I have
been wondering if it may be a problem/BUG specifically to my hardware but
I don't know. Below I have listed my computer specs in case the
information is needed.
Motherboard: Asus-TX97
Chipset: Triton 430TX PCIset
Cache: 512K
Memory: one DIMM168 4x64 32MB SDRAM 10NS
Processor: AMD K6-200MHz
- Paul J Thompson
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