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

[Whit Hansell]

David Simmons wrote:
> > 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.
David, Thanks for replying.  i think I did a bad job of explaining the 
problem and also I have rebooted to see if it messed up again but it 
rebooted fine so whatever happened there seems to no longer be a problem.

But to your statement and a more accurate explanation.  Everything is 
just fine all thru bootup(pre X) and during login and using X ....  I 
CAN use the terminal/command line in the GUI/X mode.  You know, where 
there is a  "Terminal" icon that is on the desktop and or 
Taskbar/Panel.  YOu know, it pops up in a window and has all teh window 
menu stuff with it.  That works fine as does everything else in X.

The Problem comes when I try to do the "Cntrl Alt F1-F6" AND at 
reboot/shutdown AFTER X is closed and the system goes to Terminal mode 
to echo shutdown progress to the screen.  I get no echo.  just a black 
screen and the "out of range" message from the monitor.  I get that from 
both the CAF1-6 and again, at shutdown/reboot.  I think of that as VT100 
mode/Virtual Terminal because it looks like what I remember the old 
terminals looked like.  I don't know really what it's called in 
reality.  But anyway, that is where I'm having my problem.]

It seems like there is a call to change the monitor settings for some 
reason when going  into that mode and i don't know where to tweak them 
so the system no longer goes "out fo range" for the monoitor.  Again, 
it's jus fine at bootup(pre X) but then for some reason it all changes 
after X and I then try to access that mode and after X closes.   Note 
that when I do a Cntrl Alt F1-F6 and get the black screen, I CAN do a 
Cntrl Alt F7 and get back to X just fine.  No problemo' there.  It just 
doesn't like the VT mode.

i CAN get by w/o using the VT"CntrlAlt F1-F6" mode but I don't like the 
idea of not being able to see the shutdown echo in case there are system 
problems and or errmor messages i need to see at shutdown/reboot.


Sorry for the bad explanation previously...
> 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')
Re nvidia.  It is an ATI graphics situation, not nvidia.  But I had 
looked at the installed drivers using Synaptic and was astounded at all 
the drivers that the "install" did install on the system.  And I think 
it's installed all the ATI drivers that it had in it's database for the 
AMD64 install.  ATI  and more... I think it also included nvidia too.

I checked to see if there is an ati-xconfig file but could not find 
anything.  There also seems not to be a nvidia-xconfig flie on my system 
either. 

> hope that helps,
>
> -dave
Oh well.  I'll keep googling but am at a loss right now.  Thanks again 
for the reply.  Much appreciated.

Whit


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