James B. Byrne wrote: > On Mon, July 21, 2014 18:41:26 UTC, m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at > 5-cent.us wrote: > >> 1. What video manufacturer? Nvidia? Ati?...? > > I have no idea. But in opening the case to find out I realized that the > video feed was attached to a PCI card - whose manufacturer escapes my attempts > to identify. In any case, removing that card and attaching the monitor to > the built-in video solved the problem. AUGH! That was *not* what I meant. Can you get it up, at least in singleuser mode? If so, lspci will probably tell you. Or lshw. Or dmidecode... or, for that matter, it might tell you in dmesg or messages. mark