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Christopher Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:14:13 -0700
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On 2011-08-09, at 9:17 AM, Jos Vos wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:17:31AM -0500, Ken Teh wrote:
> 
>> The installation screens during a 6.1 kickstart install have no words on 
>> them.  It's like it was not able to load a font table so the screens, 
>> dialogs, buttons, are all blank.
>> 
>> The install works.  I'm not particularly bothered by it but thought you 
>> might want to know.
> 
> I've done several SL 6.1 kickstart installs in the last week, but I
> never saw anything wrong, all info was displayed as usual.
> 
> Having said that, when installing with kickstart I don't have dialogs,
> but buttons and other text I see during the install all look fine.
> 
> -- 
> --    Jos Vos <[log in to unmask]>
> --    X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV   |   Phone: +31 20 6938364
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This may be a long shot, but there may be something wrong with your video card. I've had garbled text on a terminal and it was due to my video card dying for some reason.

Christopher Tooley
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