Anthony Papillion <anthony <at> papillion.me> writes: > > On 05/01/2013 09:57 AM, David G. Miller wrote: > > Anthony Papillion<anthony<at> papillion.me> writes: > > > >> > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a > >> normal boot. > >> > >> When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a > >> certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. > > <SNIP> > > > > Try the brightness adjust buttons on your laptop. You didn't say what brand > > of laptop you have but I used an HP laptop at my previous job that would set > > the brightness of the laptop's display to essentially off when it booted. > > Since there were no errors, there were no messages. I forget how I finally > > discovered I just needed to hit the "brighter" button a few times and the > > display was there. > > Hi Dave, > > It's not the brightness settings, already checked that as I'd run into > something similar with a Debian install a few years ago. In my case, the > monitor is going into power saving mode. I'm back to Fedora 14 and I'm > having no problems there. But the minuite I upgrade to 17, it will go > back to kicking the monitor into PS mode on boot. > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > Anthony For some reason I was thinking laptop. Probably because I had the problem with mine. A different suggestion: let the system come up (just wait a while) and then request an alternate console with CTRL-ALT-F2 (or whatever you favorite alternate console number is). This should work around any video mode issues for a graphic display since you get a text console. If you get a text console then the issue is probably an incompatible video mode when running in graphical mode. If you don't get a text console then your video card isn't being recognized. I'm assuming you see normal POST activity before the OS boots. Cheers, Dave -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
