-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Morten Nilsen Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:28 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0) D Steward wrote: >> - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot >> and when logging in? > I presume you mean when logging in at the console, the fonts look a > bit glitchy and flickery at times. no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power off mode - the LED turns orange. That sounds like the X server trying to start and failing. It did just as you describe about 8 times. I JUST experienced the same thing on a Fedora 8 install. Although, it finally failed and asked if I wanted to view the log and manually configure.... I had an un-identified monitor..... It sounds like you might have removed X already too, so ignore this if it's not relevant... Dennis