[GRLUG] IBM NetVista not booting graphical environment

[Raymond McLaughlin]

john-thomas richards wrote:
> When it does so, the monitor goes into sleep mode and requires a
> hard reboot (the keyboard becomes unresponsive).  I thought this was odd
> behavior so I got another *identical* machine (literally; he received a
> donation of several identical machines from a local business) and tried
> installing XP onto that blank drive (after formatting, of course).  Again the
> monitor went into sleep mode.  I then booted the machine with a Knoppix CD.
> The initial splash screen (complete with graphic and a "boot:" prompt) comes
> up but when I type in "knoppix" to start Knoppix, the monitor again goes into
> sleep mode and requires a hard reboot.  The behavior is identical with XP and
> Knoppix on three machines.  I suspect it is an idiosyncracy with IBM hardware.
> Any suggestions?

In addition to the other suggestions, you might try booting knoppix with
"acpi=off" and "noamp".

suggesting
Raymond McLaughlin