Arch Linux

yu_raider

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Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 7

Monitor turns off during startup

Hello, I installed Arch today and both the livecd and the installer worked fine, but when I rebooted and booted from my hard drive, monitor turns of after a line that goes something like "Waiting for Udev...", though the computer doesn't freeze (I can still login and reboot but the monitor doesn't get a signal).
Any ideas?

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Monitor turns off during startup

Are you using a setting like vga=xxx as kernel boot parameter? If yes, try to remove it. If that doesn't work, try adding nomodeset at the end of the kernel line.

yu_raider

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Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 7

Re: Monitor turns off during startup

With nomodeset my monitor doesn't go off. Thank you very much

Doehni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: Monitor turns off during startup

I have the very same behaviour with an ATI graphics card an late kms enabled.
X does start perfectly however, so I just can't use the cli with kms enabled.