Monitor turns off on normal boot

[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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