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Hey everyone. I am trying to run DSL on my Micron Transport Xpe Pentium 133 MMX with 48MB RAM. It boots up just fine but it hits a certain point and the screen appears to turn off. However if you look close you can still see things on the screen. If I plug an external monitor in it the external monitor works just fine. It is almost as if the laptop screen backlight is turning off. Any ideas?

Try booting with different graphics modes like 800x600 or 640x480

For example, if you type:

fb800x600 at the cd boot screen, you will use an 800x600 framebuffer resolution and driver.

Or you can press the "F3" key at the boot prompt and get a list of the various framebuffer modes available for tryout.

For example, type:

dsl vga=785 xsetup

and then choose the xfbdev Xserver from the menu.

Hope this helps.

this helped me with my problem... i dunno about that guy... but thanks for fixing my problem... i gotta ask for something else though if you or someone else has a minute... is there a way to set fb800x600 as the default one? after i did a harddrive installation it was using the same resolution and stuff as the live cd chose but then after i restarted something weird happened and now only root will login with the proper resolution settings... so what file is it that i change for the other account?

sorry if this gets posted twice the site gave me some weird error saying to try again...

Log in as root.

Rename (move) your

/home/dsl/.xserverrc

file to

/home/dsl/.xserverrc.old

In other words, type:

mv /home/dsl/.xserverrc /home/dsl/.xserverrc.old

If your username is not "dsl" then change the "dsl" into your chosed username.

DSL should prompt you for xwindows settings when you next log in under your user account.

Thank you VERY much! I was able to see just enough to go do xsetup.sh which didn't work, so when I read that I thought it'd probably just be the same problem but I tried anyway and it worked perfect.... so thanks!

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