Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:38 AM,<meino.cramer@×××.de>  wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com>  [10-12-14 16:26]:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig.  While
>>>> doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine.  I
>>>> unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig.  The new
>>>> monitor is a Gateway EV910.  When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up,
>>>> it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that
>>>> pops up when I first turn the puter on.  It does work with the one I used to
>>>> install with, EV700.  So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch.
>>>>
>>>> Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue.  Is
>>>> there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I
>>>> just going nuts here?  What is it about hooking up a different monitor that
>>>> makes it not work?   Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have
>>>> switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem.
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?  Some new feature that the video card remembers what
>>>> monitor it is supposed to hook up to?
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?  Fixes would be nice.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>> Like old Bill C. said "I feel your pain."
>>>
>>> I've got a newish Samsung 22" monitor I'm using on this computer. It
>>> works great. However recently I tried reinstalling Gentoo on an older
>>> Mac Mini. This same monitor, when attached to the Mac, would boot
>>> Gentoo from the CD, showing text on the screen for about 10 seconds,
>>> and then seems to go into some sort of power savings mode where the
>>> text becomes so dim that you almost can't read it. I found in that
>>> case I had to turn the lights off to see what the Gentoo install disk
>>> was telling me to do. I figured out what I had to type to get yaboot
>>> to boot, but it was a mess.
>>>
>>> I never found a solution to this and just gave up as the Mac was too
>>> slow. You might look for BIOS level power management stuff and see if
>>> it's turning off or dimming the output?
>>>
>>> Good luck. I feel your pain...
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>>
>> In the BIOS try to disable any APM and ACPI stuff....
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
> On a PC like Dale, yes. On a Mac not sure how, and as I say for me
> it's a non-issue 'cause the Mac went in the junk pile.
>
> - Mark
>
>

And I'm enjoying my new screen as well.  I may not have to get glasses 
for a while now.  I can see.  O_O

I do have some questions tho.  Going to start a new thread on those 
tho.  Nothing to do with the monitor.

Dale

:-)  :-)