Re: X not starting correctly / wrong video frequency?
- From: Paul J Gans <gans@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:59:58 +0000 (UTC)
Marcel Mueller <freitext@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey folks.
I just reinstalled my SuSE 10.0, but unfortunately it won't give me my
GUI working right. Installation works well all the way, but when it's
all over, I just get a very fuzzy looking X-screen (it's a bit blueish
with some white and green in between, so it _should_ be the login
screen), at the right approx. 1/3 or 1/4 of the screen is completely
black.
First I thought it was a newly bought old tv-card that was messing
things up during install, then I excluded the update from the
installation process (tv-card was gone, too, just btw). So all these
things cannot be a source of the problem.
I already tried these:
- reinstalling (useless, same error)
- "sax2" and "sax2 -a" (completely useless screen, just fuzziness in
blak and some lighter stripes, nothing recognizeable)
- reinstalling with lower resolution for the video-setting at the end.
The last one got me a bit closer to the problem: GUI wasn't showing up,
just my monitor (TFT) telling me about a wrong video frequency. `Till
then I had used the default settings (1024x768,16bit depth), this error
came after switching to 800x600 with same depth. Tha graphics card is an
Ati Rage 128 AGP which works fine so far.
As I have no idea as to where in the xorg.conf or whereever else to look
or fix the problem.. and 'cause I don't wanna try to use it without any
GUI, I turn this way. I'm pretty sure it's just some minor flaw I
oversaw somewhere, so just point me the right way, give me a roadmap or
the like, ...
Thanks in advance,
This may not help at all, though it helped me on an old CRT
monitor.
From a text screen (runlevel 3) run "sax2 -l" That's the letter,not the number one. This will force sax2 to use 800x600 at the
lowest refresh frequency. This *may* give you a screen that
actually displays.
Next check to see if sax2 has the right monitor. If not, see
if your monitor is in the data base and choose it.
Last, you can check various screen sizes and see if they work.
The default is to return you to the 800x00 screen. Your
problem may be that the refresh frequency is too high and needs
to be something like 60 Hz.
At home I have a flakey video card. It works just fine when
I use the analog video connector. But when I use the digital
one, sometimes the card fails to sync with the screen and the
LCD monitor complains that it isn't getting a signal. This
happens both in Windows and in Suse 10.0. So I reboot. One
or sometimes two reboots fixes it.
No amount of fidling with sax2 ever did anything for it.
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--- Paul J. Gans
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