On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:05:51 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
I guess I didn't have a lot of hope for the nouveau driver,
and this video card, but the dashes all over the screen seem
weird enough to mention on the list:-).
Perhaps even stranger, after rebooting a couple of times,
this stopped happening. I now get a normal black background
on the console - no dashes.