Blank screen after startup on todays live CD (feb 26)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Feb 26 19:42:14 CST 2005


On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Sanjeev Das wrote:

> Burned todays live cd and tried to boot into my Sony Vaio SRX 87P laptop.
> Got a blank screen after startup. The last thing I see on the screen is
> "starting gnome display manager" and "starting CUPS"
> 
> With the previous live CDs it used to boot into 800x600, while the lcd is
> capable of 1024x768, which i had to fix manually by adding the horizsync
> and vertrefresh.

What was the last CD that you tried?  Do you get a blank black screen, or
the brown background?

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 - mdz



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