Blog archives for January, 2008

When I boot up into Debian Linux, the booting is fine until it changes resolution (to another text resolution, before the booting is complete) and on this second resolution, the screen is completely black, and the monitor turns off. I get the same thing in consoles (F1-F6) now. When X starts, there are many vertical bars down the screen (perhaps 80 or more) which change colour when the screen is refreshed (move the mouse, etc.) and the screen as a whole flickers random colours frequently.
The xorg.conf in /etc/X11/ hasn’t been modified recently, either by myself or a program. The last thing I was doing was playing Heroes 3, then quitting, then restarting (no video problems)

I booted into Windoze, then restarted, then booted into Linux, and the problem was there. It’s strange though, because I haven’t been tinkering with the video for a long time. I double-checked that it wasn’t the card or the monitor, Windoze displays normally.
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Thanks for the help. Yes, the computer’s video had been working fine (and still is under WXP) until just today. I can ssh to it from another computer (the one I’m using now) to poke around and do stuff, or XDMCP in for X stuff, but I have no idea what’s wrong.
***UPDATE: SOLVED***

I did an aptitude upgrade (debian has this auto updating feature)– it failed for most of the downloads (503 Service Unavailable), then I shut it down for the night. Next morning, it was fine.

I’m still utterly confused, and a little scared.

Perhaps the upgrade did something, or fixed up something (it said it would upgrade the kernel?..)

Anyway, sorry if this is no help to others with the same problem.

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Acaba de recibir un nuevo emachine .. windows vista apesta por lo que iba a instalar linux este es mi comp EMachines # 17-pulgadas en diagonal monitor LCD panorámico Presenta la resolución 1280 x 720 con 8 ms. tiempo de respuesta y relación de contraste 500:1 # 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64 procesador 3800 + Ofrece la potencia de procesamiento necesaria para una verdadera multitarea y multimedia # 1 GB de DDR2 de memoria del sistema Ofrece un buen desempeño para las exigentes aplicaciones de hoy en día junto con la opción de ampliar hasta 4 GB # 250 GB de disco duro, 7200 rpm Proporciona gran capacidad de almacenamiento para documentos, juegos, música, fotos y vídeos # DVD-R/RW unidad SuperMulti con capacidad de doble capa Le permite grabar y reproducir DVD y CD para el entretenimiento y los datos de copia de seguridad # 10/100 Base-T de interfaz de red y módem de 56k Se conecta a Internet a través de DSL, cable o servicio de marcación bastante seguro de que ha reqs linux .. itll pero siempre freaze cuando su partioning las unidades o instalar debian problema?

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