Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/8/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gentoo live cd? I didn't know it started gnome. the new 2006.0 boots gnome and you can start graphical installer now for the problem, press ctrl+alt+F1 there you can kill configure your xorg with xorgconfig when done restart X with

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what video drivers the live cd uses? Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i know ati drivers suck but i booted the live cd on my x300se card so i guess it's not really the problem.. maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the live cd set by default on my pc and it worked great) On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ghaith Hachem schreef: On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What video card do you have and what drivers? I've had similar problems (not with this graphical live CD, since I installed Gentoo before it existed, but with X applications and X itself), because I have an ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the x cards are particularly problematic in terms of X drivers at this time. yep the card sucks i'll get an nvidia as soon as i can maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know ati drivers suck but i booted the live cd on my x300se card so i guess it's not really the problem.. maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the live cd set by default on my pc and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel da Veiga schreef: The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all cards Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by autodectection of the video hardware? My question here is because

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga schreef: The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all cards Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it would be the safest way. But now that you mentioned it, I only tested in my machine (ATI, old one) and another server (NVidia, FX5200), both loaded without Direct

[gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-07 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what video drivers the live cd uses? Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 22:18 -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what video drivers the live cd uses? The gentoo live cd? I didn't know it started gnome. Did