[ltp] T41: garbled screen

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:21:59 +0100, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> 0) My first post to this list.
> 
> 1) I recently purchased a T41 (model 2373-9FG) with a 14.1" 1400x1050
> screen and (as far as I know) an ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 graphics card.
> 
> 2) On this T41 I installed Fedora Core 3. I do not dual boot with some
> other OS.
> 
> 3) Every now and then the screen of this T41 is totally garbled. This
> happens directly after starting this T41: even the BIOS splash screen is
> unreadable! I more or less have to guess what is happening when it boots
> and log in and do a poweroff "blind". The screen can stay garbled for a
> number of boots and then (seemingly random) it will be just fine right
> from the start. Quite annoying, to put it mildly.
> 
> 4) Has anyone experienced similar problems?
> 
> 5) Is there any chance this is not a hardware problem (I'm guessing a
> faulty graphics card) but somehow related to my Fedora Core 3 setup?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul Bolle
> 

Sounds like hardware to me. especially if is persists across power cycles.

Alex