major Samsung frequency problems
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. -Michael
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!
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
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,
I had a similar problem with my Samsung 15", but this was with the graphics display. Samsung LCD Monitors are EXTREMELY sensitive to sweep and clock frequency settings. Lilo ( sorry - I know nothing about Grub ) allows you set the display mode for a text display. There is a line in the lilo.conf file vga = <whatever> I use 'vga = normal' ( ie a 25 x 80 bog standard screen without SuSE's "enhancements" ) If there is a corresponding line in the Grub configuration, try the above. If Sax causes problems with setting up video settings - it did for me - take the modeline settings on the driver disk supplied with the monitor and drop them into the XF86Config file, making certain to comment out any conflicting lines. Hope this helps Basil Fowler On Friday 30 May 2003 12:57, Michael George wrote: the 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.
-Michael
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On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:57, Michael George wrote:
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).
This is possibly your problem. If you didn't activate all the necessary stuff in the kernel for the framebuffer setup to work correctly, this might happen. Does it work fine with the stock kernel? H
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