On 13 Nov 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > This could be any of several things ... especially with an unsupported card > .... but the most likely is that you have told the X server to use a refresh > rate (an hsync or vsync ... apparently the variable names these days are > HorizSync and VertRefresh) that your monitor will not support. Double check > your values, or switch to more conservative ones. > > Also, what default screen size and bit depth are you using? (Check the X > error log, or redirect X's STDERR to a file, for example with > "startx >xerrors.txt 2>&1".) Try making 640x480, 8-bit color the first > choice, as really old monitors may not support anything better (but rarely > will fail to support it). >
I tried several - 4, 8 and 16 bit. I tried 640x480 like you suggested at 8 and 4 bit, but no luck. Other than the h and v sync values I found on the 'net for this monitor, I've tried 31.5 at 640x480 with 50-70. Still no display. > Do you have access to the system from anything othet than the console? (For > example, can you ssh or telnet in, or do you have a serial display > connected?) No. Sorry. When the screen is "dark", if you press CTRL-ALT-F2, do you get > a console login back? (This will work for some monitors with sync problems, > but not all ... you may need to power-cycle the monitor after you press the > key combination ... and I don't know that even that will work reliably.) > No. I tried ctrl-alt-f2 - which I know in other Linuxes I've used takes one to a console. That didn't work. Just continues to sit there blank. I eventually hit ctrl-alt-del, which reboots the system. The saga continues . . . James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
