Re: Linux ....grrrr!

[Steve B <steve@xxxxxxx>]

BIOS power management set to blank screen ?



At 11:01 03/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Quoting Tony Butler (roaming@xxxxxxx):
>
> > After our recent discussions on which Linux distro to go for for
easy of
> > installation & use, I settled on Mandrake 8.2
> > d/led it, fed 3 CD's into a retired PC and....
> >
> > Log in to a command prompt and about every 5-10 seconds the
screen goes
> > blank for a few seconds.
> > If I have been typing something, then nothing I type whilst the
screen
> > is blank appears when the display returns.
> > Installed twice and same thing both times - this is not even with
X
> > running ffs :-(
> >
> > I knew me and *nix were not destined for each other :-<
>
>This sounds very much like X *is* installed and is trying to start
>up and failing, so you're getting dropped back to a normal tty.
>
>As a quick workaround, you might try typing
>
>   init 3
>
>at the root prompt once you have logged in.  I'm not familiar
with
>Mandrake specifically, but I think that should take the system back
to
>a run-level where X will not get started and you might be able to
>achieve something.  If that *does* work, try editing
>
>   /etc/inittab
>
>Look for a line that was something like
>
>   id:5:initdefault:
>
>and change the 5 to a 3.  X should then never start on bootup.
>
>James
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