[ltp] New To List - blank console

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 14:11, Dale H. Cook wrote:

> The first problem I'm having is that the system locks up when I logout from 
> KDE. It may have something to do with running at 1024x768 - it's what I run 
> with Win98SE, and it looks great in KDE, but logout yields a black screen. 
> I had to take several whacks at the installation before I could get the 
> video working in KDE in the first place. I'll reconfigure to 800x600 and 
> see what happens.

You mention KDE - do you mean you log in to other window managers, and
it doesn't give you a blank screen when you log out?

When you start the machine, up until you see the graphical login - do
you see text messages scrolling up reporting the boot process?

I've seen this when the kernel was trying to write to a console frame
buffer that wasn't there.

Cheers,
Bret

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