Although this problem has not been resolved, partly because I hate to keep rebooting. I want to thank Jorge, Sjoerd, Hans, and Bruce for taking an interest in solving my problem. I will live with the non-graphical screen using vga=0164 which I obtained by using "scan" when I booted with vga=ask. I only see console 1 during boot anyway. Terry Terry Eck wrote:
First of all I which to thank the list members who helped me with my problem of a blank screen after I switch from a Nvidia MX400 to and FX5200. Changing vga=0x31a to vga=normal helped.
-- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Fri 04/16/04 17:30 5:30pm up 4:02, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.04, 0.01 There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't