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Topic: Monitors stop working when booting from Live Cd

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Posted: May 23 2006,17:30

Hi....

Newbie alert -- bear with me.

I d/l 2.4 and burned the image to disc. Popped it in and it did boot to the DSL splash screen with the options enter, f2 or f3. When I hit enter, my monitor went black. No harm done.....I just have a feeling that DSL is not recognizing my video card -- a Matrox 450 dual screen card. Crap.....same thing happened when I tried Knoppix with a Live Cd.

Any ideas? Perhaps one of the boot options under f2?

Thanks much!!!

doobit

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Posted: May 23 2006,19:32

Yes, you may need one of the video options. It would be helpful to know the native resolution of your monitor and what your video card will support. You might start by using fb800x600 as the first item after the word boot:
Alternately you could use dsl vga=788 or one of the others.

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DaveJ45

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Posted: May 23 2006,23:01

I had a similar problem when trying to run DSL from a live CD on a Micron Transport XPE. All the specs were OK, but the screen would go blank right after a kernal load. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del would stop the process and bring back the text screen.

In my case, after a lot of googling, using the noscsi option solved the problem.

My command to boot was actually simple:

DSL noscsi vga=normal

So obviously the noscsi command was what did the trick.

That kinda sucks, since I have a docking station for this particular machine which DOES have SCSI ports on it, but, if this is the only way it will run, then that is what has to be done.

Interestingly enough, the problem occured even when the machine was NOT connected to the docking station, i.e, no SCSI ports. Go figure

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Posted: May 24 2006,13:47

Dave, thanks -- I, too have SCSI on board (Jaz drive) and that helped somewhat.

Now I'm stuck 2 seconds later, however, when it says something like kernel loading, etc....and then all i get is a blinking command line. Nothing else happens. Any ideas?

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