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[ILUG] Blank screen on first and subsequent boots

[ILUG] Blank screen on first and subsequent boots

John Allen john.allen at dublinux.net
Mon Feb 18 14:51:57 GMT 2008


spirals wrote:
> [snipped]
> +++ My Problem +++
>
> I get a blank screen on first and subsequent boots. After a restart, I 
> logged in as single user and setup ftpd and telnetd, so I can 
Holy crap Batman, telnetd.

Surely openssh-server would be a better option?
> get inside the machine. I noted that my user (spirals) on pene has no 
> “Desktop” directory. Under Knoppix I needed to add xmodule=vesa to get 
> that to run, am uncertain if this will work with Etch. I found 
> references (conflicting) regarding radionfb being damaged/bad/dud but 
> nothing covering a blank screen on first boot.
> Any help/advice appreciated, best regards, (dja.) spirals
>
[snipped]

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John Allen                          mailto:john.allen at codemountain.net
CodeMountain                        http://www.codemountain.net

Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
up 10 days, 34 min, 15 users,  load average: 1.77, 2.03, 1.49




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