Monitor turns off on normal boot

[Anthony Papillion]

Hello Everyone,

I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a  
normal boot.

When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a  
certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. I  
finally got Fedora 14 to work by selecting basic video. But when I  
upgraded to 17, same thing happened: got to a point then the monitor  
turned off.

Can anyone help me? I'd thought it might be a video driver issue but  
on three separate is installations?

I'm at my wits end!

Thanks,
Anthony

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[Tim]

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:22 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote:
>  I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a 
>
>  normal boot.
>   
>  When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a  
>  certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. I  
>  finally got Fedora 14 to work by selecting basic video. But when I  
>  upgraded to 17, same thing happened: got to a point then the monitor  
>  turned off.
>   
>  Can anyone help me? I'd thought it might be a video driver issue but  
>  on three separate is installations? 
Could be that the system's picking a video rate that your monitor can't
handle.  One of mine did that.  In the end, I hand edited a
~/.config/monitors.xml file to specify the screen resolution that the
monitor would work at.

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[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Anthony Papillion <anthony <at> papillion.me> writes:

>  
>  On 05/01/2013 09:57 AM, David G. Miller wrote:
>  > Anthony Papillion<anthony<at>  papillion.me>  writes:
>  >
>  >>
>  >> Hello Everyone,
>  >>
>  >> I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a
>  >> normal boot.
>  >>
>  >> When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a
>  >> certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens.
>  > <SNIP>
>  >
>  > Try the brightness adjust buttons on your laptop.  You didn't say what brand
>  > of laptop you have but I used an HP laptop at my previous job that would set
>  > the brightness of the laptop's display to essentially off when it booted.
>  > Since there were no errors, there were no messages.  I forget how I finally
>  > discovered I just needed to hit the "brighter" button a few times and the
>  > display was there.
>  
>  Hi Dave,
>  
>  It's not the brightness settings, already checked that as I'd run into 
>  something similar with a Debian install a few years ago. In my case, the 
>  monitor is going into power saving mode. I'm back to Fedora 14 and I'm 
>  having no problems there. But the minuite I upgrade to 17, it will go 
>  back to kicking the monitor into PS mode on boot.
>  
>  Any other ideas?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Anthony 
For some reason I was thinking laptop.  Probably because I had the problem
with mine.  A different suggestion: let the system come up (just wait a
while) and then request an alternate console with CTRL-ALT-F2 (or whatever
you favorite alternate console number is).  This should work around any
video mode issues for a graphic display since you get a text console.

If you get a text console then the issue is probably an incompatible video
mode when running in graphical mode.  If you don't get a text console then
your video card isn't being recognized.  I'm assuming you see normal POST
activity before the OS boots.

Cheers,
Dave

[Anthony Papillion]

On 05/01/2013 09:59 AM, Tim wrote:
>  On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:22 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> > I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a
> > normal boot.
> >
> > When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a
> > certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. I
> > finally got Fedora 14 to work by selecting basic video. But when I
> > upgraded to 17, same thing happened: got to a point then the monitor
> > turned off.
> >
> > Can anyone help me? I'd thought it might be a video driver issue but
> > on three separate is installations?
>
>  Could be that the system's picking a video rate that your monitor can't
>  handle.  One of mine did that.  In the end, I hand edited a
>  ~/.config/monitors.xml file to specify the screen resolution that the
>  monitor would work at. 
That could very well be. I went to my $HOME/.config directory and it 
doesn't look like there even is a monitors.xml file there. Keep in mind 
that this is 14 so it might have changed maybe? Any documentation on how 
to manually construct the monitors.xml file? I've been Googling around 
with no luck.

Thanks,
Anthony

[Anthony Papillion]

On 05/01/2013 09:57 AM, David G. Miller wrote:
>  Anthony Papillion<anthony<at>  papillion.me>  writes:
>
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a
> > normal boot.
> >
> > When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a
> > certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens.
>  <SNIP>
>
>  Try the brightness adjust buttons on your laptop.  You didn't say what brand
>  of laptop you have but I used an HP laptop at my previous job that would set
>  the brightness of the laptop's display to essentially off when it booted.
>  Since there were no errors, there were no messages.  I forget how I finally
>  discovered I just needed to hit the "brighter" button a few times and the
>  display was there. 

Hi Dave,

It's not the brightness settings, already checked that as I'd run into 
something similar with a Debian install a few years ago. In my case, the 
monitor is going into power saving mode. I'm back to Fedora 14 and I'm 
having no problems there. But the minuite I upgrade to 17, it will go 
back to kicking the monitor into PS mode on boot.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Anthony

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Anthony Papillion <anthony <at> papillion.me> writes:

>  
>  Hello Everyone,
>  
>  I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a  
>  normal boot.
>  
>  When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a  
>  certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. 
<SNIP>

Try the brightness adjust buttons on your laptop.  You didn't say what brand
of laptop you have but I used an HP laptop at my previous job that would set
the brightness of the laptop's display to essentially off when it booted. 
Since there were no errors, there were no messages.  I forget how I finally
discovered I just needed to hit the "brighter" button a few times and the
display was there.

Cheers,
Dave