hoary live (2005-03-24) test on various servers

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Mar 24 22:55:18 CST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:25:24PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
>  o On a couple of amd64 boxes, the brightness in X seemed very high.
>    However, the servers I'm installing on are behind a KVM with a
>    funky auto-adjusting monitor that's too clever for it's own good,
>    so I don't know if this is a genuine problem or not.  Anyone else
>    seen it?

I blame the monitor.  I don't know.  Not seen it before.  But then
again, I (happily) don't own a KVM.  Or an auto-adjusting monitor.

>  o When installing on an Apple Xserve, I need 'video=ofonly' which is
>    fine, up until I hit 'Logout' -> 'Restart' as the switch from X
>    back to the console fails.  This is particularly problematic as you
>    can't see the "Press ENTER to continue" prompt.

What sort of video card is in these things?
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