On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:36 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > About an hour ago, I logged off my kde session. My LCD monitor > immediately went to a black screen - with no way of logging back in - > when the session ended. > > It took me 8 (eight) times going through a reboot process before I could > get FC5 to present me with a login screen. The first 7 times, I got > either a black screen or an "Out of Range" error. Finally, it presented > me with a login screen and I was able to get the system up. > > I *KNOW* this isn't typical ... if it were, no one on the face of the > planet would be running Fedora. Unfortunately, that doesn't make my life > any easier - it is happening here. > > There are some real experts here. I know, they've helped me out with > other problems. Does anyone know how to fix this? While a real fix is > what's needed, even a bypass - a way to get back to a login screen when > the system is acting up - would be a tremendous improvement. ---- crystal ball cloudy - try again later in the meantime, perhaps you would want to quote relevant portions of /etc/X11/xorg.conf - the sections about Monitor, Device and Screen would probably be appropriate Craig
