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eduncan01

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Posted: Mar. 04 2005,03:45

Hi,

I just installed DSL on my compaq presario 1236 laptop. The install went great, however. . . When it boots into X, the monitor is so bright you can't read anything. Think of major sun glare shining on your monitor, that's what it's like. I have tried using Xsetup, but it doesn't correct the issue. I have tried xf86config, XF86Setup, but they dont come up. I know it isn't the monitor itself, because when it boots you can see everything that is booting, with the colored text. Once X starts it has the major glare. I hope this makes sense. . .
Can anyone help me on this?

Thanks
Eric

irun5k

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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,02:53

Weird. Did you try starting up using a framebuffer, instead of xvesa?

Deviant
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Posted: April 17 2005,20:06

I'm having the same problem - I believe he's referencing the "green screen" issue. Most of the solutions on here tell you to run fb800x600 at boot time, but I have a hard drive install and this solution just doesn't work.

Any help would be great - thank you!