Apologies if this gets double-posted. I sent it 2 or 3 hrs ago and haven't seen it hit the list yet, so I'm resending.
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > OK. First thing to wonder is if this is some sort of xdm problem. Test this > by removing the symlink /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm and rebooting. This change should > leave you with a standard login: prompt on VT1. > > Log in and run "startx", and see if you have the same problem. > Same problem. A bit of phosphor excitement as the server starts, and some blinking. Then it goes totally black and the power light starts blinking. > This detail actually is important. It is an indicator of a problem with an > hsync or vsync signal to the monitor. Make sure your X setup is set to use > default size of 640x480 and color depth of 8 (not great settings, but very > vanilla ones, likely to find a workable modeline). > Tried 640x480x8 with the current hsync and vsync. Same problem - black screen after a blink or two. > I don't have a 2.2.20 source tree handy to examine, and I don't otherwise > recall if it supports devfs. Based on my system here, current (or at least > recent) X doesn't assume devfs is in use. > I tried the new kernel and am running it now. It has not resolved the problem. > As a general matter, if we are looking at the possibility of hardware > problems, you might want to report the details of how you consifured X (in > the dpkg-mediated dialog) and what the relevant sections (Modules, Device, > Monitor, Screen, and ServerLayout) of XF86Config look like. Also tell us > what monitor you are using and what you know about its multisync > capabilities (this last item is an RTFM exercise). > When I installed X using tasksel, a set of dialogues ran after the download asking details about video card, monitor, keyboard and mouse. I entered the values there. I initially edited (by hand) a line in the section that deals with the mouse. Since then, I have run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 at least 4 or 5 times to try and fiddle with settings to see if that would help. Those mouse settings have almost surely been overwritten by now. The way XF86Config-4 looks is sort of a moving target for this reason: I'm not sure what to show you. This monitor is a Microscan ADI 4V LM-1564. Like most of the other stuff I have, this one is a castoff that came with no documentation. Specs I found on the web for it say it can do 1280x1024 maximum, and that hsync is 30-64, vsync 50-100. I tried those settings initially at 24 bit color and 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions. Later I went down to 50-80 on vsync. Since your last reply I've selected 640x480 only in dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and 8 bit color. I also tried limiting hsync down to 30-40 and vsync to 50-60. Though it may not be relevant, I'd like to ask how I go about specifying a window manager. I apt-get(ted) fluxbox as I mentioned, but I'm just not sure if I need to configure the system somehow so that the computer knows to start it. I'm assuming that, even if that's not configured correctly, I should still see something when I run "startx," and that it's therefore probably not relevant to the problems I'm having. But not being sure, and needing to perhaps confront that aspect at some stage, I thought I should mention it. What I really need is some sort of description of setting up X from start to finish. Unfortunately, I haven't located such a resource yet. Any recommendations anyone? Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
