On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:38 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> [10-12-14 16:26]: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While >> > doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. >> > I >> > unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new >> > monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up, >> > it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that >> > pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used >> > to >> > install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch. >> > >> > Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. >> > Is >> > there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I >> > just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that >> > makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have >> > switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem. >> > >> > What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what >> > monitor it is supposed to hook up to? >> > >> > Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. >> > >> > Dale >> >> Like old Bill C. said "I feel your pain." >> >> I've got a newish Samsung 22" monitor I'm using on this computer. It >> works great. However recently I tried reinstalling Gentoo on an older >> Mac Mini. This same monitor, when attached to the Mac, would boot >> Gentoo from the CD, showing text on the screen for about 10 seconds, >> and then seems to go into some sort of power savings mode where the >> text becomes so dim that you almost can't read it. I found in that >> case I had to turn the lights off to see what the Gentoo install disk >> was telling me to do. I figured out what I had to type to get yaboot >> to boot, but it was a mess. >> >> I never found a solution to this and just gave up as the Mac was too >> slow. You might look for BIOS level power management stuff and see if >> it's turning off or dimming the output? >> >> Good luck. I feel your pain... >> >> - Mark >> > > In the BIOS try to disable any APM and ACPI stuff.... > > Good luck!
On a PC like Dale, yes. On a Mac not sure how, and as I say for me it's a non-issue 'cause the Mac went in the junk pile. - Mark
