[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot Up Parameters - Keeping them in LiveCD

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Pearson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:53 AM, David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> Can you do Ctrl-Alt-F1?  This would determine the extent of
>> lockup (the
>>>> whole machine or just the graphical
>> environment).
>>> Or can you do a ctrl+alt+backspace
>> and kill the x session?
>>
>> All good ideas....but I'm talking about
>> a module or something killing it...don't think it's a X-Server
>> issue....machine locks (as in only by Reset Button can I reboot)....none
>> of the 'backdoors' work.
>>
>> -dave
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> I had a similar problem to these symptoms and the picture you posted.
> The problem turned out to be the LCD monitor. Once I retired that I
> have had no problems with any distro.
> My only conclusion (no hard data other than replacing the monitor) was
> that the monitor info was either not returned to the OS or incorrect
> monitor info was returned and then Xorg set the monitor to something
> that couldn't work.
>  If you have an working CRT or a known good LCD I would try those.
> I did finally get openSUSE 11.0 to install but I could never get the
> monitor set right for a decent display.
> 
> I believe this is actually a flaw in the way Linux "X" is setting the
> monitor at boot. From what I read, it appears that Ubuntu 8.10 does
> not use this process any longer signaling a trend away from the old
> problematic way.
> 
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Can you boot to run level 3 by any means?  If so then make that the 
default run level and use startx whenever you have a new idea about the 
problem.