[SPAM] [Voyage-linux] VGA or Display problem

[Chance Walton]

Im not sure XDM is the problem.  Even if I load the liveCD it does the samething.  I have to install from the failsafe mode from the liveCD and the normal terminal login comes up after it boots.

 

On my current login after grub, the kernel starts, then at a certain point it goes blank.  I tried adding into grub “vga=785” but that didn’t work.

 

I tried the same thing on a newer laptop and can see what is happening, just don’t know where to fix it.  On the new laptop, after it boots, it changes from standard 25x80 characters, it changes to a different resolution.  About half the size of the text.  My older laptop just must not be able to load the new resolution.

 

Can anyone point me to the .conf file that tells voyage to change resolution?

 

Thank you,



Chance Walton
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From: jfh at greenhousepc.com [mailto:jfh at greenhousepc.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:18 AM
To: Chance Walton
Subject: RE: [SPAM] [Voyage-linux] VGA or Display problem

 

Chance,

 

You have to have something configured to USE the display.  With no XDM and no logins, you get ... no display.

 

Try this -- ssh into the box after the install and try starting X.  If X starts, configure XDM to start.

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Julie Haugh
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Subject: Re: [SPAM] [Voyage-linux] VGA or Display problem
From: Chance Walton <chanwalt at technicalelite.com>
Date: Sat, June 18, 2011 4:44 pm
To: "<jfh at greenhousepc.com>" <jfh at greenhousepc.com>

Have don't have xdm configured. It's just the base install from the livecd. 

 

I can see it start to load, so the display is working. Then some module loads and the display goes dead. 

 

No logins for virtual terminals. I havnt had a chance to do anything the display is dead. 


On Jun 18, 2011, at 4:59 PM, <jfh at greenhousepc.com> wrote:

Do you have XDM or anything else configured that would drive the display?  Do you have logins defined for the virtual terminals?

 

Voyage isn't like one of those distros where people run it as a desktop operating system -- you have a set up what you need.

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Julie Haugh
Senior Design Engineer
greenHouse Computers, LLC // jfh at greenhousepc.com // greenHousePC on Skype

 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SPAM] [Voyage-linux] VGA or Display problem
From: <chanwalt at technicalelite.com>
Date: Sat, June 18, 2011 3:48 pm
To: voyage-linux at voyage.hk

I home someone can point me in the right direction. I have been using voyage since ver. 0.5 and love it.

I just tried to install 0.7 for the first time on an old Sony Vaio P3 laptop. I loaded it from the liveCD and had to boot it into fail-safe mode. After I installed it, grub starts, and it starts to load. At some point the screen flashes and goes blank, but the HD light is still flashing, just nothing is being displayed. It even apears that I can log in and shutdown the box, just nothing is being displayed on the screen.

There must be a VGA or monitor driver being loaded at boot that wasn't loaded during the fail-safe install option from the liveCD. Could someone point me to the right config file to disable the VGA to make it display the same as the fail-safe option?

Thank you for any help!

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