Hi Barry,

If you cold boot your computer instead of just using restart, reset, or CTL-ALT-DEL 
does the machine have the same symptoms?

You might have to completely shut down your computer when you want to boot into Linux 
after a Win98 session.

Hope this helps.

Mark LaPierre


In a message dated Mon, 25 Mar 2002  8:41:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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> I have a dual boot machine, Windows 98 and Linux 7.2.
> After installing Linux, everything works fine.  I can stop and restart the
> X server any number of times
> without issue.  However, if I boot Windows and then boot Linux, the display
> goes into standby mode
> when I 'startx'.
> 
> My guess is that Windows is setting some option on the video card that X
> does not or has not been configured
> to support.
> 
> Since Linux/X work after each RE-install, there must be some utility I can
> run to re-initialize the video card.
> Yes, No?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.  Thank you.
> 
> 
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