Video problem keeping system from booting most time. Safe-Mode-Versa no problem

[patmac]

(I am sure this topic has been coved many times, and I apologize in advance if this is redundant, but I searched and read all I could but did not find any solutions)

Dell Workstation 670, Nvidia NV37gl Quadro PCI-e, sata.., dual monitors. KDE

1) LiveCD booted fine, loaded PCLinux 09 in Safe-Mode-Versa.. Machine boots perfectly. Displays perfect.

2) Installed to H/D.. no problems.

3)Reboot... remove LiveCD,  PCL loads and at the very last second b-4 log in screen displayed... 1/2 screen goes black and system locks up. Have to power down.

Is there anyway to make default boot the Safe-Mode-Versa... or, change the vid drivers to match the NV37gl prior to KDE booting.

Or.. I am open to anything at this point.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[T6]

"I am sure this topic has been coved many times, and I apologize in advance if this is redundant, but I searched and read all I could but did not find any solutions)"

no, in fact you are the first person i can remember saying that has a nvidia quadro installed, i don't know if the nvidia driver works with your video card and what version should you use

there is ways to set xorg to load a specific driver XFconfig or drackconf but the problem is that you can't see log in screen

have you tried with only one monitor connected or turned on?

[patmac]

Thanks for reply.
I have tried w/ one mon and then two.. but have not set xorg or anything.

Strange thing is the pc boots fine when I tried several distro's last night but reinstalled PCLinuxOS b/c it seems to do best until the log in screen comes up.

At that point, the monitor (2) flakes out.

One monitor (default) works perfectly... that is what is strange...

Seems to be  the second monitor driver that is the issue.. and the display is not extened at that point, just a mirror of the other

Scratching head here...



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[patmac]

Why is it that when in safemode- vesa, both displays work perfectly.. only when PCL load video drivers does one mont crap out.

How can I make Safemode-vesa the default for installed version.

thank you

[Was_Just19]

Why is it that when in safemode- vesa, both displays work perfectly.. only when PCL load video drivers does one mont crap out.

How can I make Safemode-vesa the default for installed version.

thank you

Adding the word    vesa    to the boot line you are using, should load the vesa drivers as default.
You can go into the PCLOS Control Center and set up the Graphics and choose there to use Vesa and it should be a permanent change for the installe system.

You can edit the boot line ....... in the file     /boot/grub/menu.lst       You need to have root privileges to save your edit.

[patmac]

Thank you. I tried that via control center and the second monitor did not come back up.

Dual's work perfectly up until the log in screen appears... At that point, one shuts off and the other remains default.

Wil ltinker with it..
thanks

[Was_Just19]

Thank you. I tried that via control center and the second monitor did not come back up.

Dual's work perfectly up until the log in screen appears... At that point, one shuts off and the other remains default.

Wil ltinker with it..
thanks

That is likely (I suspect) because the vesa driver is a basic driver and maybe does not have dual monitor capabilities.
You would need a proprietary driver for those functions I think .......... although I do not run dual monitors so maybe someone with correct information might jump in with facts.

regards.

[SARGE-FMJ]

Have you configured twinview in your xorg.conf? It is needed for dual monitors to work correctly. Here is a link for a post I found.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,68550.0.html

Hope this helps.

[Tomtompiper]

Not sure if this will help but I had a similar problem with dual monitors on one of my machines, it was using ATI card, but the problem turned out to be PCLinuxOS was using the discrete Graphics card during the live CD and installation but when booting was trying to use the onboard graphics. luckily I had an option in BIOS to disable the onboard graphics, once this was done the problem was cured. It may not be what is causing your problem but it might be worth checking.