Subj : Remmina RDP
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Wed May 15 2024 07:12:00


Hi Ky!

-=> KY MOFFET wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

 > I use Devuan on two machines.  One is a PC that I do use the GUI on.  That
 > machine has always had a quirk where, every so often, the screen will just
 > disappear and the machine requires a reboot.  Do you remember ever trying
 > to load a GIF or other graphics on an XT and having it not work?  That is
 > what the screen will suddenly look like... a big mess.  ;)
 > It does that no matter what distro is running on it so I figure it is
 > something wrong with the box itself.
 KM> Bad video RAM, probably at the tail end of the addressing space
 KM> and marginal rather than failed, so it only occasionally messes
 KM> up.
 
Well I'm going to disagree with the bad video RAM statement thought I'll
probably be learning a lot by the 'rebuttal'!

Here have two essentially headless systems: video connected to a KVM
switch; rarely need to work directly on either unit.  One has an antique
GT218 video card, the other uses built-in graphics from the CPU.  Both 
have eventually 'gone to black' in that they work fine except for no 
video.

The other computers to the KVM switch do not have the loss of video
issue.

Doesn't eliminate video addressing statement as a possibility.  I don't
recall how to look up; guessing "all f's" in the range end-point would
mean it's at the far end.


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