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

[Phil Barnett]

Whit Hansell wrote:
> hey guys,
> Lookin' for an answer to a prob' I've run up against.  amonth ago or 
> so on a Sat. AM, the power dropped and my mobo was dead when it came 
> back on.  So went to ComppUSA and bought a new one, an Asus M3A78-CM 
> and put an AMD Athlon X2 5200 2.7Ghz processor on it and 4 G RAM.  
> Onboard video and sound.
>
> 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.  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.  
> AFter a while, I just typed itn "shutdown -h now" thinking it would 
> take over and just shutdown the system, but it didnt' and i fianally 
> used the switch to turn off the machine.  Then when I turned it back 
> on all the partitions had to be re"journald" which tells me the system 
> got stuck somewhere but aI coudn not see where because the terminal 
> was black.
>
> I have googled "out of range" and amd64 but all I can really find is 
> where people have had problems w. getting  past the splash screen or 
> such.  That's not my problem.  I need to find out what conf file I 
> need to tweak to set up the correct range (I'm assuming 60Hz) at a 
> 1024 X 768 resolution from the login screen and after.  At least 
> that's my assumption.  The LCD is  a NIKO 2+0+R(been a good little 
> monitor so far) with Hres 48.37, Vres 60.01, Pixel Clock 64.51 Mhz at 
> 1024 X 768.  The onboard video is ATIRV610  Direct X10.0.  I have the 
> resin KDE set at 1024 X 768 at 60Hz.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or experience at this I'd sure appreciate some 
> input.  I'm googled out.
>  i've not been able to find anyone who has had a similar problem, or 
> at least who had gotten it figured out.
Well, I have a tiny bit of input.

Somewhere in an upgrade in the last few months, my laptop (HP, nVidia 
video) started getting a blank black screen when I press Ctrl-Alt-F2-F6

Ctrl-F1 brings me back to the GUI. (KDE)

ps ax in a gui terminal shows that I have 5 instances of /sbin/mingetty 
running, but I can't seem to switch to them.

I'm guessing that I have the same problem on totally different hardware.

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