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01-25-2008 #1
black screen after X
Thanks in advance,
Stinkomanplease click my minicity!
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01-25-2008 #2
i think it might be a framebuffer problem because i just realized thats the only thing i did differently on this install. is there a way to find out which resolution you can use for your frame buffer? EX. 640x4800x256 ?
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01-25-2008 #3
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See if this will work for you:
Code:# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS # +-------------------------------------------------+ # | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 # ----+-------------------------------------------- # 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775 # 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793 # 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794 # 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795 # +-------------------------------------------------+
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01-25-2008 #4
1st, I have no idea what that table means. Second, it was the frame buffer. Third, would I just copy/paste that table somewhere or what?
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01-25-2008 #5
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Left column is color count/resolution.
Top row is display resolution.
The numbers under each display resolution represent the different settings you can use in your GRUB/LILO file to achieve that particular color res with display res.
For instance, if you wanted a 1024x768 framebuffer, you could add "vga=773" to your kernel line in GRUB.oz
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01-25-2008 #6
Ok thanks, but how do I tell if it's compatible? Because I like the penguin and the smaller lines, but the default one it chooses apparently didnt work... or should i just reformat and try each one individually till it works?
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01-25-2008 #7
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It depends on your hardware. I usually start with the top number because I don't need many colors for my setup and work my way down the list.
I forget what the default is in Slackware.oz
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01-25-2008 #8
thanks it seems to work now
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01-25-2008 #9
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I forgot to mention that LILO puts the vga setting on it's own line in lilo.conf, but you apparently figured that out.
Glad you are up and running!oz
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01-26-2008 #10
hey i rebooted the compy and i got the error message again.
/dev/hdb1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.please click my minicity!
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