Debian box that now boots and a video question

[Scott Howell]

Folks, as I reported some while back, I thought upgrading to the  
latest Sid had hosed my box. Well it was rather ironic that in fact  
all of my booting problems were traced back to a bad Doubletalk  
external. Now why I never thought of this is that I've never had a  
synth just up and fail this way, I connected it to a winblows box to  
determine after connecting to my other Linux box it wasn't working  
and sure enough on the winblows box it works fine. I ended up taking  
it to work and hooking it up to my xp box at work and it worked just  
fine. I then brought my synth from the office home and hooked that to  
the Linux box and sure enough, it came up talking. I have absolutely  
no clue why my original synth no longer works with my Linux boxes,  
but well that's just one of those mysteries.

Now my question. My wife was looking at the screen on my Linux box  
and she said there are lines all over it. The monitor is fine, so it  
must be something with my video driver. This is kernel 2.6.14.3 and I  
set vga normal in the lilo.conf file. If I switch this thing to the  
Gnome login screen, it seems to work, but it does say something about  
the mode not being supported. The only change is I went from a big  
old 17-inch monitor to a flat screen 14-inch to recover a good deal  
of desk space and that monitor was pretty cheap, but hell I don't  
need it, but she does..grin
Any thoughts?

tnx