FC2test3 - monitor goes off when X starts

[Kevin F. Quinn]

Just an update, if anyone cares.  I tried a couple of versions of 
Knoppix (3.2, 3.4) on the same system and in both, X failed to show 
anything on the monitor.  Again, the text boot-up stuff was fine (fb) 
but no X display, although the software thinks everything is ok.

(also tried hard-wiring the horizontal/vertical frequencies suggested by 
Hannes Mayer, albeit in Knoppix rather than Fedora, but unfortunately no 
luck).

Tried swapping to a different LCD panel, which worked fine.  Tried the 
original panel on another machine (Dell laptop with ATI card), it worked 
fine there.  Seems to be a combination of the panel ("YPL8017"), the 
Medion GeForce3 Ti 200 card in the tower, and the 'nv' X video driver.

Since it occurs on other distributions, I haven't put anything in 
bugzilla - it seems most likely to be something in the 'nv' X video 
driver, or perhaps the DDC interactions between the monitor and the 
nVidia chip.

Kev.