[Leaplist] LCD = Out of Range problem - Debian AMD64

[David Simmons]

> Anyway, It all comes up just fine and dandy, w. the latest Debian
AMD5
> Lenny netinstall but found that when I try to do anything
in terminal
> (F1-F6) I get a black screen and teh monitor sends
out an "Out of Range"
> sgnal.  It's strange because
when it boots up, I get terminal output up
> to the login screen
which works just fine.  But then after login and KDE
> opens up, I
can't get back to the termial.

that's not strange...actually -
that's to be expected.  Because what's happening in boot-up is
'pre-X'.....then all of your changes/mess-up are 'post X'.....so the
problem is your X configuration.

> It has even messed up
my
> shutdown.  The other  day for grins, I did a reboot and it
took a whie
> for the KDE to close and then go to terminal for the
"shutdown" messages
> but then after KDE shutdown, the
terminal screen was black and it just
> sat there w. the mouse
pointer siltting there

Are you doing something like CTRL-ALT-F1
to change to the different what you're calling 'terminal screens'? 
or are you just running the terminal program within X?

If you
can get to something like 'CTRL-ALT-F1' or other screen like F2, F3 
(not F7 or F8)....then do this:

init 3   (this should
take you out of X and drop you into a runlevel 3 environment - i.e. NO
x)

nvidia-xconfig  (will probably need to run this as root
or sudo)  <--if you have a NVIDIA card (not sure that it is for
ATI based cards - could probably Google for 'ati x config setup')

hope that helps,

-dave

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