From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 10:43:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25F016A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:43:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC6243D2D for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:43:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i82AhYuN088823 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:43:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i82AhXx6088818; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:43:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:43:32 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: putnam@speakeasy.net Message-ID: <20040902104332.GA88731@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , putnam@speakeasy.net, Unix Help References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:43:34 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: Unix Help Subject: Re: I have no idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:43:41 -0000 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:58:05AM +0000, putnam@speakeasy.net wrote: > I am experiencing strange things. When my system boots the screen is over= run with " " " marks everywhere and as it loads the words on the screen are= all misspells as do the command's when I type them in, they still give the= expected response thought. I cannot figure this out do you have any Ideas = for me.? At a guess your video card is failing. Or it could be some other part of your system, but I'd say hardware problems are the most probable cause. The usual way of confirming this sort of diagnosis is to swap out the suspect parts and see if the problem goes away or not. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBNvlUiD657aJF7eIRAnkTAKCkzyEC3K6NfVaLBO6oRBpgUbR9LgCbByZ3 XVuNFy5hAPXo5OS5gBHuf2M= =Nuhy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--