[Grml] Re: Grml2hd Xorg.conf screen blanks

[Michael Prokop]

* Mark <27e3kk302 at sneakemail.com> [20060828 11:05]:

> Testing grml2hd again would be too much work and
> the problem was reproducible with a live CD test
> anyway.  I used "grml-x fluxbox" as the command.

That's fine.

> Just before Fluxbox starts, I observed the blackout
> in the terminal screen.  Fluxbox itself seemed to
> have no problems.  When I quit Fluxbox and X, the
> terminal showed the same problem, all the way through
> system shutdown.  Basically the screen was wrecked.

Ok.

> There is more.  Grml did something to the actual
> CRT monitor adjustment firmware.

> My testing desk has two PCs with identical video cards
> on a dumb KVM switch.  After switching over to the
> Windows machine, I noticed the Windows screen was
> wrecked by the grml test.  It appears that grml panned
> the screen firmware out of bounds.  I had to power off
> to restore normalcy.  Rebooting showed normal behavior.

> The Windows machine normally runs at very high quality
> video settings with nVidia driver, 1152x864 32-bit 75 Hz.
> The monitor is extremely capable if old.  So it is not
> a problem with the monitor.

> For the live CD grml test I just used your stock CD,
> nothing else.

So the nv driver is used, right?
Do you get the same strange behaviour when running:

  grml-x -module vesa fluxbox

?

regards,
-mika-
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