From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 08:37:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B394316A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:37:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8F043FE1 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edvk2@xs4all.nl) Received: from xs4all.nl (a80-127-22-88.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.127.22.88]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAAGb6V5077716 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:37:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FAFC012.3030208@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:42:58 +0100 From: ed User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: freebsd newbee problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:37:11 -0000 i have the problem that when i try installing freebsd 4.8 after about 3 minutes the monitor goes black and there is no way to reactivate it unless by restarting. i tried two different monitors, an old tulip and a maggellan of about three years old but both have this annoying problem hope you can help ed van kuipers holland edvk2@xs4all.nl