> Don Raikes wrote: > >> When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random >> graphics characters on my display. > > not being able to view your screen makes replying with any more helpful answer. > >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > what happens if you enter 'clear'? > > When I enter clear, the visible display (brltty) seems ok for a few minutes or perhaps a few lines, then I run into the lines again. > > My son was watching the system while it was rebooting the other day, and he said that the display is all messed up even as it is rebooting. I think perhaps my video card is failing. > also, being curious about assistance for impaired vision, i ran a google-linux > search of 'brltty' which yielded 27,900 hits. on first page, i found a link, Try setting the terminal environment variable to a known terminal type: ansi, vt100 or vt102. In the bourne shell: export TERM=<terminal choice> The terminals are listed in /etc/termcap... not in easy to read text. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines