Problems in setting up new accounts; garbage on screen at login

[Craig Ruff]

In article <100 at frio.cs.utexas.edu> jonabbey at 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.
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