I have a peculiar problem with a new HP Compaq nx6115 notebook. This is an AMD Turion 64 based notebook with ATI Radeon XPress 200 M series graphics card with LPL LG Philips LCD monitor capable of 1024x768 resolution, 24 bit colour.
I have tried and successfully installed different distributions on it (including Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Debian latest, Mandriva 2007 and finally openSuse 10.2). They all boot into the graphical desktop and work fine. But there is one problem - if I try Ctrl-Alt-Fn to access a console, the display gets garbled. I can only see white and black flickering bands. Attempting to get back via Ctrl-Alt-F7 fails also. So if I do Ctrl-Alt-Fn, the options left for me are pressing the power button to force a shutdown or typing in a shutdown command on a console which I cannot see. The latter works, indicating that the system is alright but for some reason the display is incapable of making the switch. The same problem occurs if I choose shutdown or restart from the Start menu. The system will shutdown or reboot but the display shows only bands. I have disabled options such as a splash screen during boot, vesa-fb mode for the console etc. But the problem is not solved. Will be very grateful for any pointers on this. Regards Pramathesh Ambasta ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
