I just put my new Samsung SyncMaster 171MP on my 8.2 system. I have the graphics working okay, but the text mode doesn't work at all.
When booting, I get the standard BIOS information right up to the Grub stage 2 bootloader info. One time I got the boot menu, the other time I didn't.
I saw nothing of the boot sequence (booting into a custom kernel). Once it started X11, things were fine. However, booting into init level 3 leaves the screen dead.
I got it configured by using a remote system to display yast.
I don't like not being able to see the startup and shutdown messages, though, and I certainly don't like the fact that my VTs are unusable.
When I say the screen is dead, I mean that my power light is orange, the screen is all black save for a message from the monitor that says:
Sync. Out of Range: 46.4kHz / 43Hz
It seems that in standard VGA text mode it must still be using the frequencies from my NEC monitor, but I don't know how to get it to change...
Pointers, please.
Some additional info: I shutdown my system and rebooted with the SuSE install disk in the drive. I couldn't see the boot image and select any of the choices there. That means that when I go to do my final install (this weeknd was the plan) onto my live partitions (rather than the test partition), I won't be able to see anything on the screen to do the install. Not good. I rebooted to my old live partitions, which have RHL 7.2 on them and everything went just fine. I could see all the boot messages as I would expect. That means that this is a SuSE-unique problem... Thanks, in advance, for any help!