Guest pak Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Hello, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 on a partitioned HDD. The installation went well, I was asked to remove the last install cd and reboot. Lilo came up and recognised the other OS's and I chose to start Mandrake. The boot up sequence went fine everything came back [ok]. However, right before it should go to the login screen my monitor (Sony TFT LCD SDM-M61) goes black. When I cycle the power my monitor briefly shows an error, something like invalid scan range 4.9 or something like that. I can reproduce the error if needed. I have had Mandrake 8.2 succesfuly operating on this setup before. I tried to get another distro (Redhat 9) on here and had the same problem. The buttons on the monitor (menu, contrast, brightness) will not function as well while showing the black screen. Is this a driver issue w/ my monitor? My video card is a Nvidia 3 DDR 128 which it sees, and I don't think it could be that since I can see the boot up sequence. I am new to *nix so I couldn't find the right parameters in google although I tried. Any help is apreciated and I can provide details if needed. Thanks for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Did you go to the xfree setup during the installation? Was it troublefree? Some nvidia boards have problems with the stock 'nv' driver, I had the exact same problem with mdk9.0 (well, same problem description), which was fixed after installing the nvidia proprietary drivers. Check the nvidia website for that, and install those drivers. (and how to adapt the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the new 'nvidia' driver instead of the 'nv' driver) It may also be that your xfconfig file is just not ok. What you could also try is to go to a different resolution, just do a ctrl-alt-+ or ctrl-alt-- (minus) and see if that helps. Also, check with ctrl-alt-F1 if you can switch to the console, ctrl-alt-F7 to go back to the graphical stuff (that doesn't work currently..). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pak Posted June 25, 2003 Report Share Posted June 25, 2003 Thanks for the response How can I tell if I chose an xfree setup? I never recieved any errors on this install. ( I already knew to disable my onboard raid controller to get past the kernel panic from 8.2 ;) ) I have tried the following without any different results: Lowered the resolution, chose custom settings, manualy entered the refresh rates per my monitors manual, chose a different video card (chaintech), it didn't have mine which is a chaintech AGP-300 w/ a Nvidia Geforce 3 128 ddr ti 200 GPU. Why can I see the install, boot loader and bootup sequence if its a video driver issue? Does Mandrake or my bios use some other driver at that time?? Is the ctrl-alt-F1 used at the point during the bootup? I am looking into the Nvidia site now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted June 25, 2003 Report Share Posted June 25, 2003 Im almost certain its a Nvidia problem. Read this: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...p?p=32346#32346 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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