[NTLUG:Discuss] mandrake 9.1 GUI logout shutdown and reboot problem

[fredjame]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> severian at pobox.com wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>   I don't have a box with LILO, so I can't check this.  But a little 
>> googling tells me that you should look at /etc/lilo.conf.  There is a 
>> line that saya vga=xxx, where xxx is a way of specifying the video 
>> mode.  This is completely independent of you screen resolution for 
>> X(Gnome runs on X11 and uses the X setting for video modes).  You may 
>> not be able to comment on the fiollowing statement, since you may 
>> never have seen the whole boot.  If the lilo configuration is your 
>> problem, then the screen should have been "blank" during part of the 
>> boot process as well as during shutdown.
>>
>>   I think a good value for the vga=xxx line would be 769 or 785.  
>> This appears to set plainn 640 x 480 resolution.  I think you have to 
>> run lilo to rewrite the boot info for the change to take effect.  
>> Someone else will have to address that.
>
> ...
>
> Make it "vga=normal" and you'll avoid the framebuffer issue, which has 
> caused several people grief.  After that, you need to run /sbin/lilo.
>
> Interesting problem...  Does /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or the .old 
> version) have anything helpful in it (e.g. warnings or errors {ignore 
> font dir messages})? You might also check ~/.X.err for messages.
>
> HTH,

The only message like that is:
<< (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. >> 
found in /var/log/XFree86.n.log (where n is a positive integer), and the 
neither << find / -name mnt -prune -o -name ".*X*err*" -print >> or << 
find / -name mnt -prune -o -name "*X*err*" -print >> turned up anything 
of interest.

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