duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Duty Programmer) writes:
: In article <1992May18.163859.6173@gdk.b17a.ingr.com>, ramesh@guru.b17a.ingr.COM (V. Ramesh Sharma) writes:
: |> After the usual iterations of fixing the /dev/tty0 problem, I am stuck
: |> right now at the screen displaying wierd lines and patterns. Then I
: |> have to do a reset and start all over again! Sigh....
: 
: I posted yesterday with the same problem. Only one reply so far, but
: I also downloaded timings.zip from archsci.arch.su.oz.au and ran the
: timings program, which is supposed to generate the monitor part of the
: Xconfig file. *Sigh* - nothing seems to work: all I get is a completely
: unsync-ed mess. I've used the clocks that X386 gives me, and the (factor
: of 2 higher) ones from DMODE.
: 
: The only other information I have is that X seems to be hanging. It doesn't
: seem to respond to Cntrl-Alt-+ or Cntrl-Alt-Backspace. I can't ^C out. However,
If this is the case, then X very likely isn't running. :)

try doing 'startx >& xout' and then logging in the other term, syncing,
and rebooting. Then see what is in the file. 

: I *can* log in on another VT and do things (pity I can't see anything 
: meaningful
: on the screen), but nothing very useful (apart from sync!). But at 
: least linux
: is still up! If I redirect errors, all I seem to get is 
: "interrupted system call",
: which is probably from the ^C sequences I am trying to kill it with. 
: If I don't
: do that, I don't get any output (not surprisingly) after the reboot.
: 
: HELP!
: 
: rab