[K12OSN] Gateway Computers and video problems

Lewis Holcroft lewis at pcc.com
Mon Aug 16 15:40:49 UTC 2004


I'll give that a try and see how it goes.

Thanks
Lewis

On Aug 13, 2004, at 4:58 PM, David H. Barr wrote:

> I've had some experiences like this with Power Management screwups... 
> you have all that disabled?
>
> -dBarr.
>
> k12osn-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a problem some new Gateway PC's. The model number is 310.
>> Is anyone using these, and do you have video problems?
>>
>> If I log out of a session I never get the gdm login window back. I
>> can't switch to SCREEN_02 (ok I can but I can't see ouptput) so I've
>> lost some debugging ability.
>>
>> I have not been able to find a xserver option that works consistantly.
>> vesa works sometimes. The screen blacks out and the only way to fix it
>> is to reboot. Even then it does not always work.
>>
>> I was having a similar problem with gateway monitors on LTSP Term 150,
>> but eric fixed that with an updated pxe kernel.
>>
>>  From what I can tell from booting into windows (ack) the video card
>> is a gateway video card.
>>
>> Any suggestions (besides getting another PC) would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Lewis
>> ---------
>> The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better.... So I installed
>> Linux.
>>
>>
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