Whil Hentzen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've had FC6 running on a Thinkpad T60p for several months, just > flawlessly. The best box I've ever had. > > For reasons unknown, I decided to redo the box, putting XP on it and > then adding FC6 as a dual boot. I've done this with other boxes so I > know the drill. > > Got XP going, then installed FC6, and everything seemed just peachy... > until the end of the install, when it had to reboot to go to the last > couple of steps (sound card, SELinux, etc.) Screen blanked out. The > system was running; it's just the video that was gone. I had to reboot > and edit the grub options to finish off the install. > > Then... reboot and load up the system. Again, editing the grub config to > delete rhgb and quiet. I see all of the messages display. Then it > displays the "login <machine name>" and the screen blanks again. (I'm > connected to a ViewSonic 19" flat panel.) Nothing I do displays the > login screen. > > If I boot the box without being connected to the flat panel, the login > screen displays nice as nice can be. Somehow FC 6 is NOW not seeing the > flat panel upon bootup. But it used to, never a hiccup. > > what might I look at in order to tell FC6 that the flat panel is still > really a nice guy to talk to? I can access the system just with the > laptop case open, so I'm hopeful it's just a semicolon somewhere.... > > Thanks, > > Whil Hentzen > Milwaukee > Dumb question - have you applied the updates after the re-install? Before the Xorg updates, I had problems with my ViewSonic VA912b not detected correctly on my desktop, so you may be having the same problem. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
