Re: issue w/fresh install of Sarge on PPC and 17" Apple Studio Display CRT
matthew bradley wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for help previously regarding the PowerEdge. The basic things
are set up again, cleanly, and I'm exploring.
I went ahead and decided to install Sarge on an old Blue & White
350Mhz G3 at home. The install went fine, but when it was all over and
I was brought to a login I was given a text prompt and the screen goes
to black at regular, frequent, intervals. I can barely finish typing a
login before it goes to black and it appears not to take my typing
during the "black-outs" or characters seem to get taken oddly...
anyway...
My suspicion is that X is trying to start via xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm, but X
can't start because of some issue, yet ?dm keeps trying.
Not sure what is going on. I think I may have set the resolution too
high during the setup, but I don't know how to go about fixing this
(nor am I sure this is the case).
If the black-outs stop after several iterations, just remove/disable
whichever ?dm is running until you get the problem fixed. There are
about a dozen ways of doing this; my usual method is to place the single
line "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in "/etc/init.d/[whichever]dm".
If the black-outs don't stop on their own, you can either ssh in to stop
the ?dm with "/etc/init.d/[whichever]dm stop", or you can boot into
single-user mode.
Then you can tinker with the X settings with "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86", although you'll first want to look in
"/var/log/XFree86.0.log" so you know which setting to tinker with.
I have an ATI Rage 128 video card, and that, in combination with the
monitor is supposed ot be capable up to 1600x1200 -- I may have set
the wrong frequency or something. Anyway, I'm kind of stuck at even
getting in to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.
Matt
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