[NTLUG:Discuss] mandrake 9.1 GUI logout shutdown and reboot problem

[kbrannen@gte.net]

severian at pobox.com wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I don't have a box with LILO, so I can't check this.  But a little 
> googling tells me that you should look at /etc/lilo.conf.  There is a 
> line that saya vga=xxx, where xxx is a way of specifying the video 
> mode.  This is completely independent of you screen resolution for 
> X(Gnome runs on X11 and uses the X setting for video modes).  You may 
> not be able to comment on the fiollowing statement, since you may never 
> have seen the whole boot.  If the lilo configuration is your problem, 
> then the screen should have been "blank" during part of the boot process 
> as well as during shutdown.
> 
>   I think a good value for the vga=xxx line would be 769 or 785.  This 
> appears to set plainn 640 x 480 resolution.  I think you have to run 
> lilo to rewrite the boot info for the change to take effect.  Someone 
> else will have to address that.
...

Make it "vga=normal" and you'll avoid the framebuffer issue, which has caused 
several people grief.  After that, you need to run /sbin/lilo.

Interesting problem...  Does /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or the .old version) have 
anything helpful in it (e.g. warnings or errors {ignore font dir messages})? 
You might also check ~/.X.err for messages.

HTH,
Kevin