Re: [SLE] Suse 9.1 live cd screen goes blank

From: Ashley Avileli (ashleymail4u_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/08/05

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    Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 06:00:36 -0800 (PST)
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

    Dear Alex
    I tried putting the option vga=normal it starts
    checking for hardware and then i get a kernel panic
    attempted to kill idle task and the system hangs ,is
    there any other option that I have to add

    thanks
    Ash
    --- Alex Angerhofer <alex@chem.ufl.edu> wrote:

    > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Ashley Avileli wrote:
    >
    > > hi,
    > > I am trying to use the Suse Linux 9.1 live cd and
    > the
    > > screen goes blank after the kernel expands any
    > ideas
    > > what boot options i can pass to the kernel so that
    > the
    > > screen does not go blank during installation.
    > >
    >
    > Try to hand the kernel the option vga=normal, or you
    > could actually
    > try to specify it outright. On one of my machines
    > that has an 18" Philips
    > LCD monitor I get a blank screen upon booting in the
    > default settings and
    > had to put vga=0x318 into the boot loader setup to
    > see anything before it
    > switches X on.
    >
    > Good luck, Alex.
    >
    >
    >
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