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

[Whit Hansell]

Hey Phil, As I mentioned in the message to Steve, it worked for me to 
add the vga line so give it a try..  Thanks for the input tho.  At least 
I knew I wasn't alone.  8^)  I had been wondering when I had googled so 
much and could not find anyone w. the exact same problem on the 'net.  
It is nice to have the console back and to be able to see the shutdown 
commands roll by at shutdown.
Whit


Phil Barnett wrote:
> 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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