[Classic-discuss] Screen goes black during installation

[Mikael Bak]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 23:44, David Chancogne wrote:
> Hello,
>

Hi David,

> I'm trying to install Tinysofa Classic Server (from bootable
> CD Ceara.i586.iso) on a rather old machine (Pentium w/ 32M
> of RAM).

Nice! I like to play with old stuff too :-)

> The installation is going rather well alas rather slowly. I'm okay
> with that as I can do stuff around the house while the installer
> goes thru the different installation steps. My only problem is
> that if I'm away from the machine too long the screen goes
> black, just like if some screensaver had kicked in, except that
> I can't go back to seeing what's going on with the installer.
> Hitting keys (even CTRL-Fx) does seems to make a difference.
>

Have you checked to see if there are any options in the BIOS for blanking the 
screen (under power saving options). Maybe the monitor doesn't support it 
well and isn't able to "come back".

> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.

HTH,
Mikael
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