several times, i have found my system suddenly display multicolored vertical lines on the screen. I try switching vertical terminals and ctrl+alt+bksp, both of which seem to just reset the X server, and bring back the vertical lines. The only fix is a hard reboot. I am running a stock HP Pavilion 503w with a Celeron 1.7 mhz, 128 megs of ram, and an intel 82845G/GL graphics chipset. I am currently using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 I'm trying to get my system stable enough to get rid of windows, but this makes me afraid to do so.
afaik those intel cards have known issues
If you can reproduce with >=6.8.99.15, please reopen.