FC2 graphical installer -> monitor goes blank (no signal)

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Jul 17, fredex did say:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:17:19AM -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> > the installer detects my video card properly, but then detects "unknown 
> > monitor".  then it tries to start X and my monitor goes blank (gets no 
> > signal).
> > 
> > i tried starting the installer with the line "linux acpi=off apm=off" 
> > because having those on have caused problems with starting X causing the 
> >  monitor to lose signal.
> > 
> > any ideas?  thanks for the help.
> 
> That means it's trying to drive your monitor to frequencies that are
> outside its supported range of settings, so the monitor shuts itself
> off in self-defense. (in the olden days, before monitors would do
> a self-shutdown like that, it was not uncommon to have a monitor go
> up in smoke when you overdrove it.) You need to give it set the real
> settings for your monitor if you can't pick the correct monitor from
> the provided list.

<cents=2>
Yeah, But first he has to get to where he can do that...

Since he is losing the use of his monitor before the gui asks him, we
can assume that for him, the default setup doesn't work.

It's possible he doesn't yet realize that he needs to start  with
something like "linux text" And use the keyboard to make selections from
the interactive text mode menus. He may not realize that that won't stop
him from installing the gui. It just doesn't use it to control the
installation.

I think there is an option during the install about booting in text or
gui (run level 3 or 5) modes? So if he selects the text boot mode he can
then use the VT to edit the XF86Config or xorg.conf file to set up his
monitor. And test it with startx. He can always change to a runlevel 5
startup later.
</cents>

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