Monitor goes blank -- Need help

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 00:18 +0900, Kye-Sang Lee wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After 2.5 hr of installing FC3 successfully, my PC rebooted at last. (While its rebooting, I did not choose configuring Kudzu.) 
> Just after asking the last configurations (liscence agreement, daytime setting, monitor setting, username, extra s/w CD), my monitor screen went blank.
> 
> Now, I don't know what to do, because I cannot see anything. I guess that the machine is still alive. Any help would be great. 
> 
> At the last configuration moment of monitor setting, I saw "unknown monitor with Cirrus ...". But I did not configure it further, because I had the same blank screen yesterday after I chose the 7Ei for my Samsung Samtron 7E monitor. 
> 
> Still, I can hear some relay sounds intermittently from the monitor. Is there a way to get around this problem without reinstalling FC3?
> 
> Best regards,
> Kyesang Lee.

At the grub menu type "e" to edit, go to the kernel line and change
"rhgb quiet" to "3" to boot in runlevel 3.  Can then log in and run

	system-config-display

or edit xorg.conf to fix.

Phil