Display problem on boot
Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Display problem on boot
started by: Elusion
Posted by Elusion on Sep. 22 2004,15:30
During normal boot it goes through all the things and then there is nothing on the screen, it's totally blank. When I boot failsafe, the desktop appears but the mouse doesn't work. So I can't do anything (unless you can tell me how). I can boot to the base or whatever it's called where you just have a command line. ANy help?
??note: Slax works great with no problems.
Posted by Rapidweather on Sep. 23 2004,00:30
I had that happen on a Dell LCD screen. At the boot: prompt, just"vga=normal" and see if that works. So, since I have 1 GB RAM, I do this:
boot: vga=normal toram
I would also add "restore", but the modem is a winmodem, and I do not yet
have the cable modem setup, which would get me connected without modem
settings, etc.
I would still have to have the email settings restored, and will do that when the
internet access problem is solved with the cable modem, later.
Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 23 2004,01:51
I have this problem with a dell 8300 from 2003.It works if you supply the option
dsl noagp
on 0.7 you need the
dsl nosmp noagp
if you have a pentium 4.
failsafe stops a lot of hardware detection whats why you mouse is giving trouble now.
Posted by Elusion on Sep. 23 2004,21:49
I tried vga=normal and the same thing happens, just goes to a blank screen. (btw: ctl+alt+delete works to shut it down. The screen stays black but the cd pops out and "enter" shuts the computer down)noagp didn't work either.
Is there any way to just enable the mouse in failsafe? Can I activate it somehow once it boots into failsafe.
When it boots in failsafe, the up and down arrow keys work to scroll though the document on the screen but that's it as far as I know.
In case it's important:
dsl 8.1.1 (i think)
amd 2400
512 RAM
ati readeon 9600xt
Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 23 2004,22:17
It would be nice to find WHAT is causing the blackness, and only turn off that portion of the autodetection...
Try "dsl noagp nomce"
Also, "noscsi" , unless you HAVE a scsi device ..
Have you turned off plug n pray in your bios?
73
ke4nt
Posted by Rapidweather on Sep. 24 2004,01:18
Also I wonder if you are using a LCD screen or a CRT monitor. Just fishing.---
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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Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 24 2004,04:03
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.