screen goes black..

[Rick Thomas]

It has nothing to do with external vs internal HDs and everything 
to do with video modes.

Try using the text login and telling XF86config to use the "fbdev" 
framebuffer.

I sure wish somebody would publish a detailed "how to" for dealing 
with these kinds of problems.

Rick

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Jeremy Steele wrote:

> It does that because ydl cannot boot on external hard drives. As 
> far as I know it has to be in an internal hd.
>
> On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 08:12 AM, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've been trying to get either YDL 2 or YDL 3 to run on a 
>> Power Center 150
>> (lots of ram, YDL installed on an external scsi drive).
>>
>> The same problem happens either YDL 2 or 3...everything installs 
>> perfectly, but
>> when I boot into Linux, things go black after it is done with the 
>> text part of
>> boot-up.  If I use text login, it goes black after I log in (KDE 
>> continues to
>> load, you can tell because of the sound ditty that plays during 
>> the desktop
>> loading).  If I use graphical login, it goes black when it tries 
>> to load the
>> graphical login screen.
>>
>> Obviously it doesn't like something about the video on the 
>> machine, which has
>> nothing but an Apple "platinum" video card.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  I choose 800 x 600 and thousands of colors during
>> installation, should I have chosen something else?  I have an 
>> Applevision 1710
>> monitor.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> RJ Goos
>>
>>
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