[ale] Alt+Ctrl+F# blank screens

[Björn Gustafsson]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Gray Frost <grayf327 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  One thing that
> can see is that my monitor1 (my 46 inch LCD TV) shows a shadow of a
> 4:3 box and switches to 1280x1024 res like it is attempting to show
> something while my
> monitor0 (22 inch LCD) shows the "Check source and Connection"
> message.  That cant be good :(

To me that sounds like it is trying to display the text terminal on
your TV (and failing).  I haven't experienced this exact problem
myself, but I imagine that maybe you can tweak (or rewire) something
to swap the priority of your TV and 22" LCD to make the LCD "primary".
 (The symptom you recount makes me think that the video card is trying
to drive both monitors at a non-viable rate -- perhaps because the TV
is reporting its modes incorrectly, as Michael suggested.)

>> If I default back to a single
>>  monitor then my Alt +Ctrl+F# X sessions work fine..

Have you tried a single-monitor configuration with just the TV?  If
console screens did work with that configuration, that pretty much
rules out my idea.

-- 
Björn Gustafsson
"Glad I'm still on 8.10"