Bug 49

Summary:	before login, monitor swiches off and VirtualBox too
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ojangu <jaanus.ojangu>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	alien, andres.kaaber, dmorganec
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Ojangu 2011-02-16 08:47:18 CET

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Description of problem:

I'm installing Mageia 32-bit both in VirtualBox 4.0 and on real partition. Installation was pretty and fast but after restart something switches off all video system and also monitor. VirtualBox close virtual mashine window and mageia on real partition switches off monitor. Same feeling what is after "switch off"
What I must do?
Screenshots about installation are here:
http://jaanus.ojangu.net/Materjalid/mageia/ 



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Comment 1 Ojangu 2011-02-16 08:50:27 CET

I have nvidia videocard.

Summary: before login monitor swiches off and VirtualBox too => before login, monitor swiches off and VirtualBox too

Comment 2 AL13N 2011-02-16 23:24:48 CET

afaics these are 2 unrelated problems:

the virtualbox could be due to the host being vbox3 and guest additions vbox4.
(if so, it can be workarounded by using the vesa driver instead of vboxvideo; or upgrading the host vbox)

for the real partition, the nvidia binary driver is possibly not done yet, so it could be bug in nouveau driver or something. which driver are you using? nv or nouveau?

CC: (none) => maarten.vanraes

Comment 3 Ojangu 2011-02-18 08:10:33 CET

default videio driver was noveau. Now I changed it to Vesa and now working well on real partition.

In some strange reasons I can't choose my original resolution 1680x1050. In MCC I change resolution, but it not takes effect.

I am using KDE

Comment 4 AL13N 2011-02-18 17:02:47 CET

the vesa driver was meant for the virtual environment.

for the real one(partition), you are better off trying driver nv or nvidia, if nouveau doesn't work.

the vesa driver doesn't have all the possible resolutions.

D Morgan 2011-02-25 00:01:31 CET

CC: (none) => dmorganec

D Morgan 2011-02-25 00:01:46 CET

Assignee: ahmadsamir3891 => bugsquad

Comment 5 Andres Kaaber 2011-02-26 15:07:12 CET

I come to a problem very similar wich is probably connected. After bootup everything is fine, but if I leave computer running for a while and it detects no activity it turns monitor off and I the only way to get screen back is to reboot the system. The system is working fine I can see very faint picuture from my LCD if I hold it against the light but the lightsource from monitor is turned off. Some years back I remember Mandriva having quite similar problem, then helped if you switched to console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and back, but it doesnt work now.

CC: (none) => andres.kaaber

Comment 6 Ahmad Samir 2011-03-04 21:09:30 CET

Closing as WORKSFORME (just so to close the report). Please open a separate report for each of these issues it they're still valid with latest cauldron updates.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME