jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey) (06/22/91)
Hello net. I am having difficulty with a Macintosh IIci that we received with A/UX 2.0 pre-installed on the hard drive, back in April. We are only now really getting serious about evaluating the machine, and I'm having some problems with setting up a new account. Actually, I can set up the account without any problems, but when I try to log in to a new account, the top of the screen becomes partially overwritten by approximately 6 columns of bit-garbage, covering an area from the top of the screen to approximately twice the height of the menu bar from the top. The system will then hang, and when I press the right programmer's switch (now, _that's_ a lovely name for it. 8), the columns of bit-garbage start exhibiting what looks to be scrolling behavior. I would like to express my unhappiness as well that the sys-admin manuals are an optional extra, particularly when first evaluating the machine. _Very_ frustrating. Ah, but enough of that. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has seen or knows the reason behind such behavior. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan David Abbey \ "Dudez! Gimme a quarter!" - Aldo Cella the university of texas at austin \ - Dedicated to the Cygnian in all of us. computer science/math?/psychology? \ jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu
cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) (06/22/91)
In article <100@frio.cs.utexas.edu> jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey) writes: >without any problems, but when I try to log in to a new account, the top >of the screen becomes partially overwritten by approximately 6 columns of >bit-garbage, covering an area from the top of the screen to approximately twice >the height of the menu bar from the top. I see this too, but my logons work. I suspect this happens when switching the screen depth, and the software doesn't notice until a little later. >I would like to express my unhappiness as well that the sys-admin manuals are >an optional extra, particularly when first evaluating the machine. _Very_ >frustrating. I don't think the manuals are worth the high price you have to pay. While they are more informative than no manuals, they aren't great either. -- Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307