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[Edward Dekkers]

Pierre Carlson wrote:
>  I have an xSeries 236 machine running RHEL 4 which has been working pretty
> well, apart from a few hardware problems. I used up2date and installed the
> latest xorg packages (xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20). I restarted the machine,
> but the display is not correct. The monitor is now covered with parallel,
> diagonal lines. The mouse works, but the display shows a large box with
> horizontal lines that I can move about the screen. The keyboard seems to be
> locked as well. I cannot kill the XServer and I cannot change to a text
> based login screen with the hot keys. I can ssh into the machine. I compared
> the xorg.conf files from before the update and after and it has not changed.
> Any idea on what may be going on? I can back out the xorg updates and
> hopefully get back up and working, but since this is supposed to be a
> supported piece of hardware I thought there may be a fix out there.
> 
> --
> M. Pierre Carlson
> mpcarl at gmail.com

If it's an S3 based card inside the xSeries, there was an issue with a 
wrongly compiled xorg binary that may cause this?

If it's another card I don't know.

Regards,
Ed.