Debian box that now boots and a video question

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:03:27AM EST, Scott Howell wrote:
> Now my question. My wife was looking at the screen on my Linux box  
> and she said there are lines all over it. The monitor is fine, so it  
> must be something with my video driver. This is kernel 2.6.14.3 and I  
> set vga normal in the lilo.conf file. If I switch this thing to the  
> Gnome login screen, it seems to work, but it does say something about  
> the mode not being supported. The only change is I went from a big  
> old 17-inch monitor to a flat screen 14-inch to recover a good deal  
> of desk space and that monitor was pretty cheap, but hell I don't  
> need it, but she does..grin
> Any thoughts?

You should check to see whether any framebuffer drivers are loaded. If 
so, try preventing them from being loaded at startup, and see if that 
makes a difference.
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