I would also like to add that using a lower horizontal and vertical frequency and screen resolution than the MAX you believe it might do un less you are absolutely positive the monitor can handle it. you can easily (voice of experience here) toast your monitor by over resolution or freq in X ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Kloian III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [expert] upgrade from 7.2 desktop to 8.0 > You may want to check the manufacturers specs for the horizontal and > vertical frequencies and verufy these are correct in > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. We ahve seen some trouble with the voodoo cards > but nothing like you've described. > > -- > /*************************************************************************** */ > / / > / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / > / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / > / / > / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / > / / > /*************************************************************************** */ > > > > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Gavin wrote: > > >I could really use some help here. I just upgraded my system from 7.2 > >desktop to 8.0, everything went smooth until the log in screen poped up. > >it look as if 8.0 could not get the monitor setting correct. why I'm using > >a H/P Pavilion M50 monitor and a voodoo3 banchee video card. 7.2 seemed to > >work well with it but 8.0...I just don't know tried 2 clean installs > >(recommemd mode) and 3 updates and 2 repeats under expert mode, still the > >same result. Help. > > > >Gavin (Japan) > >Reg. Linux User 199685 > > > > > >
