Help !! It's Baaack !

[mylar]

Hello.

I retitled this email. Okay, the same problem that I described below is
back again. It's really weird. It seems to be hit or miss. Sometimes
when I boot the new kernel the display comes up normally and
immediately. Other times I'll get the message, "Cannot display this
video mode", which will hang for a few seconds then the screen will
blink a couple of times and then the display will come up. other times
it just sits there with the message "Cannot display this video mode" and
does nothing. The only way out when it does that is just to hit the big
switch on the front of the machine.

However, when I boot the old kernel the display comes up each and every
time with no problems. So for now I've gone back to using the old
kernel.

Any ideas. Where do I start debugging this thing ? Why would it work,
then not work, intermittently like that. Its one of the strangest
problems I've had in a looooong time. 

Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks

John / mylar



On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:39 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 18:05 -0500, mylar wrote:
> > Hello... Here's an update...
> > 
> > It seems to be working now. After I installed the new kernel via yum I
> > rebooted into the new kernel and I had the video display problem. So I
> > shut down and rebooted the old kernel and everything was OK. After a few
> > hours I shut down and left. When I got back a few hours later I booted
> > the machine and decided to give another shot at trying to boot the new
> > kernel. 
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