On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 07:06:08PM -0600, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

>   I haven't tried tracking it down yet.  My first step was going to be looking at
> the kernel printf() and seeing if it does something that might interact with the
> graphics chip.

hm. as long as the console isn't captured by xconsole or similar, it will
bash the hardware (that is, call the text output routines of the currently-
in-charge grf driver).

Some driver(s) switch back to text mode when this happens, but most do not,
I think.

Regards,
	Ignatios