In certain situations with older monitors. Make sure the bootup is not trying to change into SVGA mode at boot. A lot of distros try to change into SVGA mode asap. Something like "no-framebuffer" at boot should fix it.

David Nicol wrote: 
The situation is as follows:

The monitor displays POST, then LILO, then booting, but somewhere in
the init process the monitor shuts off and remains off until it wakes
up on shutdown -r now, at which point one can switch between virtual
consoles and see the messages that root has echoed to for instance
/dev/tty4.

Any ideas?  It's not a wiring problem.


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