When I once had a similar problem on a Macbook Pro C2D, resetting the parameter ram or the SMC fixed it. I think Cmd-Option-P-R is the key combination for doing the first during power-up. But you might want to check http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238 and http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319-en.
On Friday 06 July 2007, Grant Generaux wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if anyone might have any thoughts on a rather strange thing > that's currently going on with my MacBook Pro screen. I have a 1st gen, > 15" MacBook Pro, with the ATI Radeon X1600. I've previously successfully > installed Fedora Core 6, but wanted to try installing Ubuntu 7.04. I > installed reFit and Bookcamp, and then installed as normal using the > alternate install disk. Everything installed fine, except the Xserver > didn't come up (as mentioned on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookProFeisty/), > so I did a dist-upgrade and then followed the instructions on the > Feisty wiki page for installing and configuring the ATI (fglrx) drivers. > Right after the configuration, I was able to 'startx' and the GUI came up > beautifully, resolution was correct, everything looked great. However, the > next time I rebooted, the screen looked like this > (http://flickr.com/photos/robbyt/537741087/), and remains that way > regardless of whether I boot into Ubuntu or boot into Mac OS X. I then > tried reconfiguring the xserver using sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, > trying to reconfigure once for the open-source ati driver, and once for > plain old vesa. Neither helps the problem. > > After that I blew away all the partitions (it was a fresh OS X install > anyway) and reinstalled OS X, but the problem still remains. I've also > tried installing Fedora Core 6, since I know it was able to correctly > detect my monitor correctly before, but this didn't help either. > > I have two observations that might help. 1. Everything looks absolutely > fine on an external monitor, so the video card seems unfazed. And 2., all > the white-on-black text has the strange fringe color, except inside the OS > X terminal. There it's perfectly clear and normal. Any ideas or > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I can > provide any additional info that might help. Thanks! > > Grant > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? > Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. > http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
