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I have seen this asked elsewhere but its always something slightly different and doesnt help.
Anyway this time i installed Mandrake 9.2 and i did it through the graphic install and all went well.. Everything seems fine. So then i restarted my pc and tried to boot Mandrake. when its about to boot the screen just goes blank (black) and its like gone into power save mode. It cant be a graphics drivers cause i checked them and they are there. Geforce 4ti 4600.
Im begining to think its my screen. I have a Dell UltraSharp 2000FP.
I think that you have set a too high resolution and/or update frequency for your monitor. When the monitor doesn't find a signal it shuts down.
Try editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I'm not very familiar with Mandrake, so I can't tell you how to do it. Someone else can probably tell how to get to a text mode login.
Sorry, if you had posted this in the newbie section I would have given more detailed instructions (hint about how I try to answer questions in different sections ).
Emacs is a text editor, but never mind. Do like this instead.
Will do.. and i will add i just saw my config file. (apparantly i have both the vonfig and config-4 but it uses config-4.. well thats what it said. so ill post config-4 here in a few minutes.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
Now, save the file back to where it came from on the Linux computer and start X. You should get to a graphical display in 640*480. Try cycling through the video modes with ctrl-alt-(and the '+' key on the numerical keyboard).
Once you verify that this works, you can put the desired resolution first in the list in the Modes section.
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