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From: Dragomir Kollaric on 28 Jan 2008 13:51

Sorry to change the direction of this thread. I've posted my problem
before, but I got no answers to it.

The problem is with the LCD Monitor and when I boot up the PC it
remains dark, after the OS (Ubuntu Studio 7.10) is up and running I
get a log-in, I can also switch to the console (Ctrl+Alt+FX 1-6) but
the fonts are huge about 10 mm high, this means that vim for example
displays 22 lines.

Using Gnome (but mostly XFCE) I get a bunch of vertical lines about
half of the monitor, from the bottom up.

Now I took some screen-shots with gimp, and lo and behold, on the
pictures taken there are no such lines to be seen, (looked at them
on another PC with another OS on it.

How does it work that gimp takes a picture of the screen, but it
doesn't capture the fault?



Dragomir Kollaric
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From: Shadow_7 on 28 Jan 2008 14:18
> The problem is with the LCD Monitor and when I boot up the PC it
> remains dark, after the OS (Ubuntu Studio 7.10) is up and running I
> get a log-in, I can also switch to the console (Ctrl+Alt+FX 1-6) but
> the fonts are huge about 10 mm high, this means that vim for example
> displays 22 lines.

If it remains blank on a console, you probably enabled the framebuffer,
but didn't include or load the modules at boot time.

If it remains blank in X, then your X is misconfigured. Or you're using
the wrong video driver. Or possibly the video driver sucks. Or your
HorizSync and VertRefresh values are off in your X configuration.

# X -configure
# X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
# cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# aticonfig --initial (and some other options, google for your card)
# X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(if all is well exit to your user and startx)
NOTE: Cntrl+Alt+Backspace to exit X.
(assuming it's responding and the keyboard didn't flake out on you)

> Using Gnome (but mostly XFCE) I get a bunch of vertical lines about half
> of the monitor, from the bottom up.

Sounds like X or your video driver is misconfigured. Check
/var/log/Xorg.0.log for any details to shed some light on it for you.
I've had that happen myself. Gimp grabs the right stuff because it's
talking to X and the problem exists between X and your video card. Not
between X and your applications / processes. Sort of the same way screen
shots don't work if your media player is using your accelerated drivers,
but does work if you output using x11/shm.

HTH
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