Console Issues

[Robert Dege]

This is probably a long shot, but it might be possible that your linux box
is booting via serial.  If you have it configured in your bootloader,
it'll stop sending data to the monitor, and will start sending it to the
COM Port.

-Rob

> have you tried logging into another tty? after the screen blanks use
> CTRL+ALT+F2 to get a different virtual terminal, F1-F6 should be
> avialable, F7 is where X loads.
>
> John Seth wrote:
> > I'm curious if anyone else runs linux w/o installing X and has run into
> > a problem similar to mine.  Normally, I run linux as a server, and don't
> > install X, or, as in the case of my personal system here at home, a dual
> > boot Win2K Pro w/ RH Linux 8.0.  Here's a quick breakdown:
> >
> > Intel PIII 933 w/ 576MB RAM
> > NVidia GeForce 2 MX/400 64MB (no tv/out, made by PNY Technologies)
> > Primary boot is Win2K
> > Secondary boot is RedHat Linux 8.0 (recently upgraded from RH 7.3)
> > ASUS CUVX-E Socket 370 Motherboard
> > Delta DC-77 (17" MGC Monitor)
> >
> > Problem:
> > Booting into linux, it displays the initrd message and then the screen
> > goes black... no text, no kernel messages, nothing (there's is a faint
> > glow, so it's not the monitor going off). This has started happening
> > since I updated RedHat 7.3, and continued into a fresh install of 8.0.
> > Thinking it was something in RH's config's or perhaps the VGA console
> > modes, I tinkered with grub (i dislike lilo since it thinks 90% of my
> > hard drives are over the limit for installing on the MBR of my main HD).
> > While waiting for RH to release a fix, or to hear others post responses
> > on various boards to this same question, I kept tinkering. Nothing. Only
> > a few responses saying I must be mistyping "vga = normal"... I've tried
> > that and my normal 'vga = 773'...
> >
> > So after having entered "vga = normal" various times and in different
> > configurations, I've come up empty handed.  Apparently it's not just RH,
> > my Slackware 8.0 & 8.1 did the same thing, and since systems like
> > Slackware boot directly into the console, you have to blindly log in,
> > then type startx (hoping you typed it all corrrectly).  X would load and
> > then after quitting X, my console is back to normal.  I have RH 8 set to
> > load directly into Gnome and then I can drop it back into the console if
> > I want.
> >
> > My guess is it's something with the kernel, or with some frame buffering
> > thing having to do with NVidia cards... anyone else have this issue?
> > What is the scoop with NVidia and linux framebuffering ? Links to valid
> > discussions on this frame-buffering issue are welcome if it's true. Does
> > anyone else know of a work around?  I tried recompiling the kernel, but
> > apparently I'm recompiling the same features in, as it's not fixing my
> > problem. I like X, but I can maneuver around without just as easily...
> > I'd rather not have to boot into X to get my console if I don't really
> > want to.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >       Tony
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com
>
>
>



Dege

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