On Wednesday 08 September 2004 08:31 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 07:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: > > For some reason, I get a black screen on shutdown or > > console terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1...) now that I've > > installed Mandrake 10 OE. It's almost like it goes > > into sleep mode becuase the monitor's powerlight goes > > to amber. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-X. The > > video is nVidia GFX 5600 FX. Although my drivers have > > been updated to the latest (and less impressive) > > drivers, I had this problem long before the update. > > Any ideas? > > The symptoms weren't exactly the same, but my 13 yr olds Soyo MB did > something like it - when the monitor kicked into standby after not being > used for awhile nothing would bring it back. I turned everything DPMS > (power management for the monitor) off in BIOS and made sure the refs to it > in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 were commented out. > > That worked here, not sure if its your problem or not.
Had a similar problem with mine. Following advice on the Nvidia forums, I moved the monitor connection from the analog VGA connector on the video card to the digital flat panel connector using the supplied adaptor. I have a Geforce4 Ti 4600. Others reported similar problems getting the nvidia card to auto detect the connected display. You can supposedly specify the connector in the xorg.conf file but I found it easier to just use the adaptor since Nvidia cards default to using the flat panel connector. That fixed the problem for me without disabling power management. -- Bryan Phinney
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