problems on power-up

[geoffleach]

Enviornment: Quadro FX 1000 with dual-Opteron AccelerTech Tyhpoon64 MB. When I apply power to the system, the displlay (ViewSonic P815) gets it first, followed about 5 seconds later by the CPU. There appears to be only a window of a couple of seconds after the CPU starts before the display goes into power-saving mode. When this happens, none of the data directed to the screen (which I presume is vanilla VGA) is displayed. Power-cycling the display has no effect. Eventually, the X server is started, and I get a normal display. On power-down, the same thing happens; nothing is displayed once the X server quits. If I hit the startup timeframe right, the startup display works as it should, as it does on shutdown.

Any suggestions.

[TierMann]

Sounds like a kernel problem.
Your vga mode is probably not right for your monitor.
"Vesa tng" in newer kernels won't display anything on my second monitor when i'm in a frame buffer (console) because it goes out of range, but with X or the bootup system checks it's fine.

You can change the mode in your lilo or grub config.

Which distro, kernel and bootloader are you using?
Might also find more help in the linux forum.