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<BODY>I am running 7.1 on a Sony Vaio PCG-F560. I had the same problem you are having when I upgraded to 7.1. I had to set my color to 16 million colors in order to be able to boot to a gui. When I did the test for X it passed every time at any screen size, or colors. But when I booted, I got a blank screen everytime. One other thing to think about is if your laptop has the function of working with a monitor. I can hit fn (function) and F7 on mine and it will switch between monitor, and laptop screen. If you are running windows on the monitor, and reboot without changing the F7 and unplug the monitor you will get a blank screen. I know that is probably not what is happening, but thought I would throw it here.<br>
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On Sun, 2001-09-16 at 12:18, Fred James wrote:
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<pre><FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I had a similar experience with Red Hat 7.1 on a laptop (Dell Latitude </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>C850), except is was a fresh install and not an upgrade.</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>What I found was that no matter what graphical configuration I selected, </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>when I pushed the test button it seemed to ignore all my selections in </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>favor of settings it preferred. Then I found that if my selections did </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>not match those that it preferred I would experience trouble with X - </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>such as the black screen you describe.</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>The solution seems to be to make your selections match those shown in </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the "test" screen image.</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Frank Lewis Jr. wrote:</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> I've seen this on systems that boot directly into X. Is this the case</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> with your setup?</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> -Frank</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> -----Original Message-----</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> From: discuss-admin@ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin@ntlug.org] On Behalf</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Of Scott Anderson</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:20 AM</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> To: NTLUG</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Laptop Redhat 7.1</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> My laptop has been running Redhat 7.0 without problem. When I attempted</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> to upgrade to 7.1 I ran into some problems. Initially the install</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> seemed to be successful. When I boot LILO succeeds and Linux runs</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> through the normal boot starting process. The screen then goes black</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> and a Linux prompt never occurs.</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> If I do a hard boot after this, I get several messages saying things</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> like:</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Inode 128372 i_blocks is 64, should be 24.</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Has anyone experienced a similar situation with a laptop running Redhat</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> 7.1?</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> _______________________________________________</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> _______________________________________________</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-- </FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>...make every program a filter...</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3">
<FONT COLOR="#1a1973"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>_______________________________________________</FONT></I></FONT SIZE="3"></pre>
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