Hi all,
This solution worked. Unknowingly I had opted for starting X at logon,
and the settings were not correct, so it was blinking.
After starting in level 3, I could login and could do the correct
settings.
Thanks for help,
Mandar
SEN wrote:
> Any chance you might have chosen a graphical login ?
> This usually takes sometime to start up, and gives you
> blinks on the screen like you describe.
> At lilo try linux 3 if this works.
> Change /etc/inittab from
> id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:
> Faster that way....
>
> Bye
> Kaushik
>
> P.S~~> The blinks are because of the X-server trying to choose the correct
> resolution during startup..
>
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