Anthony Papillion <anthony <at> papillion.me> writes:
On 05/01/2013 09:57 AM, David G. Miller wrote:
> Anthony Papillion<anthony<at> papillion.me> writes:
>
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a
>> normal boot.
>>
>> When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a
>> certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens.
> <SNIP>
>
> Try the brightness adjust buttons on your laptop. You didn't say what brand
> of laptop you have but I used an HP laptop at my previous job that would set
> the brightness of the laptop's display to essentially off when it booted.
> Since there were no errors, there were no messages. I forget how I finally
> discovered I just needed to hit the "brighter" button a few times and the
> display was there.
Hi Dave,
It's not the brightness settings, already checked that as I'd run into
something similar with a Debian install a few years ago. In my case, the
monitor is going into power saving mode. I'm back to Fedora 14 and I'm
having no problems there. But the minuite I upgrade to 17, it will go
back to kicking the monitor into PS mode on boot.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Anthony
For some reason I was thinking laptop. Probably because I had the problem
with mine. A different suggestion: let the system come up (just wait a
while) and then request an alternate console with CTRL-ALT-F2 (or whatever
you favorite alternate console number is). This should work around any
video mode issues for a graphic display since you get a text console.
If you get a text console then the issue is probably an incompatible video
mode when running in graphical mode. If you don't get a text console then
your video card isn't being recognized. I'm assuming you see normal POST
activity before the OS boots.
Cheers,
Dave