It sounds like the kernel is trying to go to a VGA mode that's not supported by the monitor/video card combination. You can override it's choice with one of the "vga=" kernel boot parameters.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt Good luck, - Rob . On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Howard Sanner < linux-au...@terrier.ampexguy.com> wrote: > Thanks to everyone who chimed in about my monitor problems. > > Today I went to PC Retro (or is it Retro PC?) just off Route 1, near > Behnke's, and got a used View Sonic 22 inch monitor with a VGA input. I > connected it up, and it's working well. > > It did give me an "out of range" (of course it didn't say WHAT was out of > range!) message after "Welcome to GRUB" came on the screen, but once Linux > started booting things worked fine. So I'm as happy a camper as I've been > since I got my current computer. (Main gripe being that video updates > glacially--2-3 seconds to switch desktops.) Someday I'll get one that works > better, but it's adequate for my needs now. > > The only heavy-duty work I do on the computer is editing WAV files. > > I also asked the folks at PC Retro about setting up a laptop for my mom > with KPPP working on it. They said they'd as their tech folks and let me > know. She'll have her 94th (!) birthday near the end of the month, and > she's said she'd like to get on the Internet to look for recipes. I know > she'd also enjoy chatting with her nieces, all of whom have email. So she > can share the same dial up acct. I have, and with a laptop she can sit in > her easy chair in the living room and surf away. I should have asked them > about this long ago. > > So thanks again to everyone. I really appreciate it. > > Howard >
