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Modem and monitor don't like linux!

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Monday, August 2nd 2004, 3:51pm

Modem and monitor don't like linux!

I have a dual boot system (Xandros 2.0 deluxe and Fedora Core 2) and have these problems:

  • I boot up FDC2 and it the moniter goes all black with a blue box saying

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    VGA MODE NOT SUPPORTED"
    Is there a way I can get it to work? The thing is I dont even get to the distro booting so I can't select text session to use a terminal. I also had this problem with Mandrake 9.2, it is a normal PnP TFT. The problem is it might be used to my normal CRT moniter.

  • I then managed to get the TFT to work with Xandros 2.0 but it doesn't detect my BT Voyager 103 DSL modem. This is the one that BT (thats British Telecom for anyone in other parts of the world) gives out for free. Now the distro detects it but doesn't detect it as a connection to the internet.
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    Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance!
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Tuesday, August 3rd 2004, 1:51am

Do you have VESA VGA graphics support in your kernel? Is your DSL modem connected to your system via ethernet or is it an internal DSL modem?
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Tuesday, August 3rd 2004, 7:14am

The DSL connection is a USB connection and the kernel as far as I know doesn't. I didn't know about anything to add to the kernel to help the monitor.
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Tuesday, December 5th 2006, 12:08pm

RE: Modem and monitor don't like linux!

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... it is a normal PnP TFT.


Hi, sorry that this reply is perhaps too late for you...

I only recently changed over to linux the last 6 weeks. I too had a problem with my monitor booting up, it's a 19" PnP CRT.

It would seem that in the boot sequence on my distro (Xandros), it didn't like the reference to inches - i.e 19" ... So someone gave me some instructions to type in at the part where the boot screen freezes...

For my particular distro, I had to enter the rescue mode from the bootable CD. Then by typing at the command prompt, used a terminal command called ' vi '.

Basically, I made changes to the xorg.conf file - changing the 19" PnP-CRT to DAEWOO 19 PNP-CRT then saving this and rebooting.

If you still need some help with this, please let us know which distro you are using and perhaps even asking on that distro's forum for info about changing the xorg.conf file on bootup!

Perhaps too, this might help others who are experiencing same/similar problems ;)