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Angela and Donald wrote:
| Dan, | | The latter situation is/was the case; I could not even get into the first | part of the installation due to an incompatible video mode. Using 'gentoo | vga=0' worked like a charm - thanks!! | | Donald | | | |>-----Original Message----- |>From: Dan Egli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |>Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:21 AM |>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor sync rate problem on installation |> |> |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>Angela and Donald wrote: |> |>| Good morning all, |>| |>| I was wondering if anyone has experience installing Gentoo |>on a system in |>| which the monitor is Syncmaster 210T (analog input, not digital) - |>after the |>| initial img loading, it pops into a resolution that my poor |>wee monitor |>| can't support and I am unable to see anything. Is there any |>way to set the |>| horizontal and vertical refresh rates right at the outset? I'm using |>Gentoo |>| 1.4. |>| |>| Donald |>| |>| |>| |>| -- |>| [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list |>| |>| |>| |> |>If you are booting into X then what I'd recomend is this: |> |>1) boot into single user mode |>2) run XF86config and choose the most conservative settings you can. |>Save that to /etc/X11/XF86Setup |>3) reboot normal and see if it works. |> |>If on the other hand you are saying that your kernel is loading a video |>mode you can not handle, then append vga=0 to the command line. That |>will force standard 80x25 text mode. | | | | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | | |
sounds like you somehow got a video mode that you cann't handle. You can put vga=0 in your lilo.conf/grub.conf, or you can try lower vesa modes. VGA=769 would enable video mode 640x480x8bpp. If that fails, stick with vga=0 till you get a better monitor.
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