On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:56:08AM -0700, Usman S. Ansari wrote: > I have two issues on Dell 2001 FP. > > 1. After system boots, monitor turns black, after that > "ctrl-atl-backspace " has no effect. Sometime I get this screen and > sometime I get login screen > 2. If X starts successfully, and I "do crtl-alt-f1", I see a blank > screen with a green line at the top of monitor display. I can "do > crtl-alt-f7" back and continue working, but console is not accessable. > > My machine dual boots (FC3 & FC4). In FC3 (all patches installed) I have > no issue with the monitor. Selected monitor is Dell D1028L, 1600 X 1200, > 60 Hz Are you using DVI or VGA? If DVI, does switching to VGA fix anything? I have had some similar funky issues with a 2001 FP on my home machine, however that machine is running FreeBSD 5.4. I believe that at least some of the problems reported may be due to a problem with the monitor itself... I'll see if I can dig up the information I found when I was looking into it. -- )) <> (( forever.
