FC4: Dell Monitor Problem

[Will Yardley]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:56:08AM -0700, Usman S. Ansari wrote:

> I have two issues on Dell 2001 FP.
> 
> 1. After system boots, monitor turns black, after that 
> "ctrl-atl-backspace " has no effect. Sometime I get this screen and 
> sometime I get login screen
> 2. If X starts successfully, and I "do crtl-alt-f1", I see a blank 
> screen with a green line at the top of monitor display. I can "do 
> crtl-alt-f7" back and continue working, but console is not accessable.
> 
> My machine dual boots (FC3 & FC4). In FC3 (all patches installed) I have 
> no issue with the monitor. Selected monitor is Dell D1028L, 1600 X 1200, 
> 60 Hz

Are you using DVI or VGA? If DVI, does switching to VGA fix anything?

I have had some similar funky issues with a 2001 FP on my home machine,
however that machine is running FreeBSD 5.4. I believe that at least
some of the problems reported may be due to a problem with the monitor
itself... I'll see if I can dig up the information I found when I was
looking into it.

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