On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:29 pm, Laurent GUERBY wrote:

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:05, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Laurent GUERBY [05-17-04 15:35]:

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Ctrl-Alt-F1 from KDE on my ACER Aspire 1353LM makes the screen go completely blank. I'm able to blindly log in / off the text console and to go back to KDE with Alt-F7. Any idea on what to try to get a proper text console?

interrupt the boot command the same as you would to init 3 or xx and edit the vga=xxxxx entry to vga=normal or 'ask' or 'scan'. The system is apparently trying to boot with screen parameters that your monitor cannot use.

Patrick, thanks for your advices.

There was indeed a vga=xxx option in /boot/grud/menu.lst, I tried various settings normal to a few values given by ask, but unfortunately I wasn't able to go back to working console from X. I also tried apm=off in addition to my existing acpi=off but with no luck.

Then I used yast to change the driver to VESA - Vesa-BIOS Graphics and it worked just fine, X to text to X! Cool.

Do you know where I should file a problem report for the VIA VT 7205 driver, to support@suse.com, http://suse.de/feedback or somewhere else?

Yep these are the places; but you should also post your solution here by replying to this msg and adding "[SOLVED]" at the end of the subject line PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Currently listening to Joseph Campbell http://www.jcf.org/ Free D/Ls after free registration --

* Laurent GUERBY [05-19-04 17:04]:

I used Yast to switch the X driver from VIA VT 7205 to VESA - Vesa-BIOS Graphics and I was able to go from X to text console to X.

I'll soon submit a report to support@suse.com.

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 23:42, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:29 pm, Laurent GUERBY wrote:

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On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:05, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Laurent GUERBY [05-17-04 15:35]:

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Ctrl-Alt-F1 from KDE on my ACER Aspire 1353LM makes the screen go completely blank. I'm able to blindly log in / off the text console and to go back to KDE with Alt-F7. Any idea on what to try to get a proper text console?

interrupt the boot command the same as you would to init 3 or xx and edit the vga=xxxxx entry to vga=normal or 'ask' or 'scan'. The system is apparently trying to boot with screen parameters that your monitor cannot use.

Patrick, thanks for your advices.

There was indeed a vga=xxx option in /boot/grud/menu.lst, I tried various settings normal to a few values given by ask, but unfortunately I wasn't able to go back to working console from X. I also tried apm=off in addition to my existing acpi=off but with no luck.

Then I used yast to change the driver to VESA - Vesa-BIOS Graphics and it worked just fine, X to text to X! Cool.

Do you know where I should file a problem report for the VIA VT 7205 driver, to support@suse.com, http://suse.de/feedback or somewhere else?

Yep these are the places; but you should also post your solution here by replying to this msg and adding "[SOLVED]" at the end of the subject line

support@suse.com does not work anymore. They were bombarded with spam and unnecessary fluf. It must be posted to http://www.suse.de/feedback gud luck -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711