Re: Signal out of Range

From: annonymous (noemail_at_foruspammers.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:03:50 GMT

CodeRed wrote:

> While installing RH Enterprise the process went smoothly with the
> installation program correctly detecting my video card and monitor.
> But when running RH for the first time, I got a blank screen except
> for an error message: Signal out of Range. What's this all about and
> more importantly, how do I get around it? I'm a Linux novice, so give
> me the RedHat for Dummies version.

When you're sitting at your Sig out of Range screen, press the CTRL-ALT-F1
key to switch to a text based login screen. Login as root. Change
directories to /etc/X11. There you will find the graphical configuration
file, XF86Config.
A safe practice is to back up the file first. Run the command
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.backup

Then use you favorite editor on the original and go down towards the bottom
where you'll find the resolutions. Look for things like
1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 etc
Change your resolution dropping it down a notch.
Next run
ps -ef |grep X11R6
that will show you the process ID of the X-Windows session. The first
column after root is the process ID. Kill the process by typing
kill -hup #### where ### is the process number from ps -ef above.

Repeat as required until you get your resolution down to where it works for
your hardware.

If you mess up the configuration file where you constantly get errors copy
your backup on top of the messed up one.

Good luck.

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