FC6 display on TP60p flakes out just before login screen
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Mar 19 03:02:04 UTC 2007
Whil Hentzen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've had FC6 running on a Thinkpad T60p for several months, just
> flawlessly. The best box I've ever had.
>
> For reasons unknown, I decided to redo the box, putting XP on it and
> then adding FC6 as a dual boot. I've done this with other boxes so I
> know the drill.
>
> Got XP going, then installed FC6, and everything seemed just peachy...
> until the end of the install, when it had to reboot to go to the last
> couple of steps (sound card, SELinux, etc.) Screen blanked out. The
> system was running; it's just the video that was gone. I had to reboot
> and edit the grub options to finish off the install.
>
> Then... reboot and load up the system. Again, editing the grub config to
> delete rhgb and quiet. I see all of the messages display. Then it
> displays the "login <machine name>" and the screen blanks again. (I'm
> connected to a ViewSonic 19" flat panel.) Nothing I do displays the
> login screen.
>
> If I boot the box without being connected to the flat panel, the login
> screen displays nice as nice can be. Somehow FC 6 is NOW not seeing the
> flat panel upon bootup. But it used to, never a hiccup.
>
> what might I look at in order to tell FC6 that the flat panel is still
> really a nice guy to talk to? I can access the system just with the
> laptop case open, so I'm hopeful it's just a semicolon somewhere....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Whil Hentzen
> Milwaukee
>
Dumb question - have you applied the updates after the re-install?
Before the Xorg updates, I had problems with my ViewSonic VA912b not
detected correctly on my desktop, so you may be having the same problem.
Mikkel
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