| "Ashish Kulkarni" <kulkarni@vsnl.in> wrote: | | > I just compiled XFree86-4.2.0 and whenever I run it, the startup | > messages scroll by and then the display goes totally blank. It does | > not show the crosshatch pattern normally seen (no WM/desktop installed | > yet). Even if I kill the server using Ctrl-Alt-backspace, the display | > remains blank until I reboot. Even If I swicth consoles, nothing | > happens. | | Ooh. I was going to suggest that the X server is trying to use a mode | that the tube can't handle, so it shuts itself down. Then I scrolled | down thru your log to see what mode it had selected, and what DDC had | reported. Is that really the end of the log? Can you rlogin (telnet, | ssh) and see if the X server has crashed or is just hung (might be | useful for the bug report)? | | You didn't say anything about what kind of monitor it is. My guess is | there's some sort of bug in its DDC (Plug'n'Pray) implementation that | causes it to crash and take the X server with it when the X server tries | to identify the monitor. Do you have another monitor you can try? | You were right, there is a bug in DDC implementation. When I added the option "NoDDC" in the Driver section, the display worked fine... my monitor's brand is not that good, I guess. Thanks for the help :-) - Ashish
