Re: Blank screen at startup

Chris wrote:
Kevin Miller wrote:

Not sure what changed, but now when I turn on my computer, the startup
screen is black until I hit a key, i.e., the KDM login screen. Anybody
else seeing that? Where do I set it back to normal, visible by default,
behavior.

Thanks...


...Kevin

Sounds like your clock is being set, or corrected, which makes the
screensaver (or powersave) think x minutes have past. Where x being some
time limit. Therefore, the screensaver (or powersave) needs to blank the
screen. When you boot check your clock? You can also boot into runlevel 3
by typing '3' without quotes in grub. Then issue the date command and see
if the time is right?

Do you have ntp set to start up on boot? If not, set it in Yast->Network
Services->NTP. Tell it to pick a server from ntp. I think it's
called "Random server from ntp.org pool" or something to that affect?

Hmmm - that's an interesting thought. I do load NTP at boot, but I use my ISP's time server. Figure it's the closest one to me. I'll boot to runlevel 3 and see what it says tomorrow.

It's been doing it for a week or so - not sure the exact time it started. I'm wondering if it's has to do with the old daylight savings time change. I think that would have occured on the 6th of April if not for the change to an earlier date.

....Kevin
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