Re: blank LCD monitor

[Olivier Esser <ol.esser@belgacom.net>]

On Thursday 31 October 2002 04:55, Rick Berger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a Proview model 780 17" LCD monitor and can't get it working
> with Woody.  It goes blank durning boot and the messages go by so fast that
> I can't tell if it is happenning durning the Kernel initialization or at
> the start of the system initialization. I'm running the 2.2.20-compact
> Kernel and am just booting into console mode.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Rick Berger

Try booting with the following parameter at the prompt:

linux video=vga16:off

This will disable the framebuffer. (I have had also problems with the 
framebuffer with a laptop computer)