X and Fluxbox :: Display problem on boot
Also I wonder if you are using a LCD screen or a CRT monitor. Just fishing.
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Might swap monitors to a CRT and see what happens. I know this is not practical
with most setups, (only one computer) but I have to do that sort of thing sometimes to see if I can pin down the problem.
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Did have a S3 graphics card that would lock up in X in Redhat and SuSE on one
motherboard, but not on another. So, I stayed with the motherboard/graphics card combo that worked!
Can't fight all the compatibility problems, sometimes you
just have to go with the flow...
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I wish I could get 0.8.1.1 right away so I could test this out on various machines.
Maybe it is because the thing goes right to a certain resolution, screen size,
etc, but I doubt it. I do that with Rapidweather Remaster, (I have both 800x600 and 1024x768 versions)
I'm stumped on the blank screen not being cured by "boot: knoppix vga=normal"
There is one thing that you can try, and that's the Framebuffer setup:
boot: fb800x600 restore toram
Then, choose: xfbdev xserver (OK)
For that, one needs to be able to run xsetup.sh, and from what I can
determine, 0.8.1.1 skips that, and goes right to a default setting, probably
an xvesa X server, which won't boot on your screen.
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FYI,
I am running DSL version 0.8.1.1 on a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Intel 875 series motherboard with an ATI 9600XT AGP graphics card and it works fine.
So I doubt that the card itself is the problem. It may be something on the motherboard. Do you have a built-in motherboard video?
Also, I have used the Dell LCD monitor 1901FP model and it behaves strangely sometimes. If you disconnect the monitor and plug it back in it will not autodetect the video scan rate.
Just for the heck of it, try hooking your same exact computer up to an older CRT monitor and see if it works.
original here.