Thanks Ben! Mission accomplished!
Mike --- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/24/06, mike shlitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The issue I have, is that the monitor I > > have available here is older, and when RH boots, I > get > > the msg. "Out of Scan Range". > > That typically means the vertical refresh rate > (measured in Hz) of > the signal being generated at the computer is too > fast for the > monitor. > > > What would be the most sensible way to go about > > changing the monitor settings? ... Is it possible > to > > boot into a "safe" mode in order to change the > > settings via the desktop? > > What you'll want to do is boot into runlevel 3. > Runlevel 5 (the > default on Red Hat, most of the time) goes directly > into X and the GUI > login. Runlevel 3 starts all the same services, but > stays at the > text-mode login on the console. > > To specify the boot runlevel, add it to kernel > boot parameters. > You're most likely using GRUB. When the system > first boots (after > BIOS init and POST), you should get a boot menu. > (It may timeout > after a few seconds, so be ready.) Hit the [A] key > to append boot > parameters. Type a space (to separate from the > previous parameters) > and then a "3" (a bare digit three). Hit [ENTER] to > accept the > parameters and boot into runlevel 3. > > Once you've got a usable console, you can run the > X configuration > utility, and specify that your monitor doesn't > support the higher > refresh rates. If needed, pick a generic monitor > type and limit it to > 60 Hz. > > The command you run to configure X can vary on > different releases of > Red Hat. What release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux > are you running? > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
