Re: Monitor Trouble
From: jludwig (wralphie_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/30/04
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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:38:34 -0400
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:53, Brane Lj wrote:
> I installed Fedora Core 1 and as usual the setup
> didn't detect my monitor properly even though it is in
> the list (Hansol 500A). I choose the proper monitor
> and continued the installation (this worked on
> previous versions of RH).
> After i installed the OS and booted it for the first
> time somewhere right after starting x my monitor
> turned itself off. I'm guessing the resolution set is
> not supported by my monitor. I went and edited the
> /etc/X11/XF86Config file - horizontal and vertical
> frequencies and resolution but that didn't help.
>
> Lastly I used the Redhat-config-x86free (forgot the
> right name) with the --reconfigure switch and i
> recieved this error:
>
> xconf.py :Fatal IO error2 (connection reset by peer)
> on x server :17.0
>
> The graphics card was detected properly - Radeon7000
> For the monitor i recieved some bogus values...
>
> I even reinstalled the whole lot and used a standard
> 800x600 monitor but no luck with that either.
>
> Does anyone know what else I could try beside buying a
> new monitor :D
>
> thanks
>
> Conker
>
>
>
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My old standard is to run XFree86 -configure as root and modify the
resulting new configuration file XF86config.new in /root. This will
usually give some lame numbers for resolution and such, but will let you
know what X wants to see.
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