Blank screen
Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Blank screen
started by: netdrakh
Posted by netdrakh on Nov. 24 2004,12:12
How do I make DSLinux understand my nVidia gForce 64 AGP card?For several rounds, I had a totally black screen when it finished the basic process of starting up.
Now, I can get a text login by messing with the display options on start-up.
The obvious question is, "How in hell can you change the display settings when the blasted thing starts from a CD?" And starts anew each time....
I suppose I could attempt to install it from a command-line, and then try screwing around with various config files, but that seems both backward and arduous!
It would be nice to get as far as trying to get this USR5610B modem to work, but I can't see what I'm doing!
To quote the Pope in "The Penultimate Supper," "I'm not. Happy. At all."
Any suggestions?
Board: Kocab 18P
CPU AMD Athlon 2.6gHz
RAM 512 MB
THANKS!!
Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,17:30
hmmmmmm, i have a very similar (if not the same) card. it works fine for me. are you sure your monitor is not at fault. type dsl xsetup at the boot prompt to get the xsetup after boot.welcome to the forum btw
Posted by ReVoLuTeR on Dec. 04 2004,22:48
Hello all!i am a new user of DSLinux and my question is very simple maybe the answer is also simple too. Like netdrakh, after all sucessfull detection of my system, configuration ok the DSL boots ok but when its start X my screen goes black...i have tried dsl xsetup.sh tried many video configs....nothing! black,black,black...
my card is one GeForce FX 5600XT 256mb
flat LCD sony 17 inches
pentium 4 prescott 3.2 ghz 1m l2 cache
hd1:maxtor 60gb
hd2:seagate barracuda 120gb SATA
sblive! sound card
lg dvdrom
sony DVDRW
lg cdrw
Please help...
THX in advance
ReVoLuTeR
Posted by Nakarti on Dec. 11 2004,05:05
Different video card, same problemRadeon 9000 with a KDS Rad-7 LCD(17", 1280x1024) monitor
Doing fb1280x1024 works ok but framebuffer is ungodly slow at such a high resolution.
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Dec. 11 2004,05:29
I have an FX5200, and I have to run the fbserver.'Cause I only have a 15" monitor, I run 800x600, so at the initial boot prompt I type "dsl vga=789", select "fbserver" instead of the vesa one, select the mouse, and up it pops.
The vesa server gives the blank screen for some unkown reason, only seemed to do it after version 0.8
Posted by green on Dec. 11 2004,08:45
Here is what I did to make my 5200 work.When the CD boots and you get the command prompt while the small penguin is displayed at the top left of the screen, press F2.
The screen will change and show you some options.
Type this:
fb1024x768
then press enter. This works for my 19 inch monitor and 5200.
You can try the other fb (frame buffer) options to suit your fancy.
Yes, you can instruct DSL (damnsmalllinux) to change display settings when booting from CD. Trust me.
Also, do some searching on the forums, but be sure to read all the areas for input in the search fields.
Post your results here.
HTH