Re: the vanishing console message trick

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:03, Jeff Cours wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:51, Jeff Cours wrote: [snip] > In fact, the reason I'm using a Radeon is that I figured it was old > enough that there ought to be solid support for it in X and the > kernel. I think it cost me al

Re: the vanishing console message trick

Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:51, Jeff Cours wrote: I'm running a Pentium IV system tracking Debian testing. The video card is an ATI Radeon, Lilo's the bootloader, and I'm using a 2.4 series Kernel. Is there anything else I should be looking at? Well for one I don't see where

Re: the vanishing console message trick

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:51, Jeff Cours wrote: > lspci output: > > /etc/modules.conf: > > I'm running a Pentium IV system tracking Debian testing. The video card > is an ATI Radeon, Lilo's the bootloader, an

Re: the vanishing console message trick

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunately, though, the problem remains. Setting vga=ask in lilo.conf didn't seem to change anything. I still got the blank screen. Also, a "grep -i tty /etc/lilo.conf" turned up negative. I did verify that the file is using vga=normal. Also, I didn't se

Re: the vanishing console message trick

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:15, Jeff Cours wrote: > Hi, everyone - > > I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago, > my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all vanished. > There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the > monitor

Re: the vanishing console message trick

Jeff Cours said: > At this point, I'm at a loss for what could be wrong and how to fix it, > but I'm really getting tired of flying blind. Does anyone have any > suggestions? sounds like LILO is sending data to the serial port, check lilo.conf's append= line for something like console=ttyS0 and

Re: the vanishing console message trick

Jeff Cours said: > Hi, everyone - > > I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago, > my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all > vanished. > There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the > monitor hasn't gone into power save), b

the vanishing console message trick

Hi, everyone - I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago, my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all vanished. There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the monitor hasn't gone into power save), but the screen is blank, like