At 10:28 AM 7/20/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi all,
> Last week I have installed RH Linux 6.2 on AMD k6 II 500 machine.
>Till yesterday it was working fine. Yesterday I was trying out different
>configurations for resolutions for X-Windows. and after that I shutdown
>the machine as usual. But today morning when I started the machine, it
>gave me login promt for a while (1-2 secs) and then the monitor started
>blinking. It showed me all the initial messages without blinking. I
>tried to type the usename, but couldn't do it. So I pressed
>Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then the display was normal, showed me all shutdown
>messages without blinking. But again after bootup same thing.
> I tried booting the machine from floppy, but the floppy went for a
>toss, so couldn't get into. So next step I tried was to boot in single
>user mode (i.e. at LILO : Linux single). It worked perfectly there. I
>could execute commands from there. I made boot floppy in single user
>mode and tried to boot from floppy. But same thing repeated.
>
> Graphics card is Trident 3D Image 975. The machine works fine in
>windows NT. So I guess there is not a problem with the display card.
> What could be the problem ? any pointers ?
The problem is with the display card. Just type "linux 3" at the
LILO prompt. This starts linux in level 3 instead of level 5. Presently ur
linux is configured to run in level 5. When linux starts this time u wud
get your normal login prompt. Login and open the file /etc/inittab.
Somewhere u wud see a 5 (on the first page itself). Change it to 3. Save
and exit. Now u could try configuring ur display card.
This problem occurs because ur display card was not configured & u
started the linux in level 5 which is the graphical mode. Once ur display
card is configured check it using "startx" & then u can switch back to
level 5. Until then level 3 (text mode) would be useful to u.
>TIA
>
>Mandar
>
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