[ltp] SuSE 7.1 on a TP 600

[Friedemann Baitinger]

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Thanks much for the info, I will check with him as soon as possible and
get back to the list with the results.

I had earlier reported a similar problem with my T21 and it turned out
that this problem (getting a blank screen when switching to
console) goes away when I specify the following in my /etc/lilo.conf:

   vga=0x33b
   append="video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap"


On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Markus Alt wrote:

> Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> > 
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> > I have just installed a SuSE 7.1 on a friend's TP 600 on a fresh new
> > disk. I have selected XFree-4.0.2 and sax2 was instantly able to create
> > a good XF86Config file, well at least at a first glance. Later I found
> > out that I could not switch to any text console and I could also not
> > terminate X and get a console back. Does this ring a bell here in this
> > community? Are there any hints what could be done in this situation?
> 
> Friedemann,
> 
> IIRC a colleague had a similar behaviour on his T21. The problem was
> that the screen expansion via <Fn><F8> was turned on when booting. This
> results in a larger font on the text consoles and the text spanning
> almost the whole screen.
> 
> I can reproduce this on my machine (on which I usually don't use that
> screen expansion) by switching from X to a text console, pressing
> <Fn><F8> (-> bigger font), switching back to X and again to a text
> console: The screen is blank.
> 
> When I turn on this screen expansion while booting and switch from X to
> a text console after the system has reached runlevel 5, I have a blank
> screen as you described.
> 
> So I think you should check if that screen expansion feature is turned
> on on your friend's TP. BTW, I disabled "HV Expansion" in the "Display"
> section of my TP's BIOS config menu, but this seems to have no effect
> regarding the way <Fn><F8> works.
> 
> HTH,
> Markus
> 
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