[Wlug] Screen goes blank with ubuntu and geforce 8800 GTS.

[Lee Keyser-Allen]

Also, never underestimate the power of telnetting into the box that's
messing up and solving the problem from that console :)

On 6/16/07, Mike <mwp at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> It sounds like something funny is going on with the boot splash program.
> If this was happening to me I would turn it of and do some debugging.
>
> You can do this right from grub. When the menu appears hit 'e' (less the
> quotes of course) to edit. Then move the cursor down once to the kernel
> line. Hit 'e' again and remove the words 'splash' and 'quiet' from the
> line. Then hit <enter>, and lastly 'b' to boot.
>
> This is a one time change for this boot. You can make these changes
> permanent by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst. Read the directions inside
> the comments and modify it appropriately. Do not edit the lines directly.
> If you do they will get overwritten by an update. Once you have edited the
> file appropriately run the 'update-grub' command and reboot.
>
> There is a possibility that you are out of range too. I believe that there
> is a configuration file in /etc/usplash. You should be able to change the
> splash screens resolution there.
>
> The last bit of advice I can give is to make sure your Nvidia drivers are
> up to date (the stock Ubuntu one's "should" work... I haven't had to
> download from NVidia in a while). And then you can reconfigure your
> xserver by running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. Make sure you
> select 'nvidia' and the appropriate screen resolutions. Sometimes I find
> that NOT specifying the sync ranges of the monitor helps (especially in
> laptops).
>
> Hopefully you can get some logs using the advice above. The output from
> dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would also be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
> <quote who="Kieran O'Callaghan">
> > I have system I just put together with a PCI-Express Geforce 8800 GTS
> > running ubuntu 7.04.  During installation of Ubuntu everything showed up
> > fine on screen. After installation, I ran into the problem that right
> > after grub starts loading linux, the screen goes blank (monitor light
> > turns from green to amber) and stays that way right up until X loads, at
> > which point I get video.  This hasn't been a problem so far, but I just
> > installed some updates and it seems like now X isn't loading or I'm
> > getting some sort of message before X loads, because it turns on and
> > just stays blank the whole time.
> > It seems like it would be easy if I just put a different video card into
> > the system, but I don't even have another PCI express video card. I also
> > don't have any PCI video cards anymore.  All I have are AGP cards and
> > the system doesn't have an AGP slot. So, it looks like taking the hard
> > drive out and moving it to another system is the only option.
> > Any thoughts on why the screen is doing that would be appreciated. The
> > monitor doesn't seem to be getting no signal, because normally it brings
> > up a message saying no signal rather than just blanking. It seems more
> > like it's gone into a power saving mode. I've tried it with other
> > monitors and had the same results.
> >
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> > Kieran O'Callaghan
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Lee Keyser-Allen
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