If you search the documentation (or simply your Windows display properties), you should be able to find the information you need to make your monitor work under X. What I am talking about is things like: - refresh rate, in kilohertz (KHz) - maximum resolution - maximum colors If you can't get X to work properly during your initial install of any Linux distro, just run xf86config from a command prompt. It will allow you to manually specify your monitor settings. Dave At 01:24 AM 3/11/01 -0800, you wrote: >I purchased a Linux for Windows sometime ago and the closes I could get to >experiencing Linux was half hour of half the Kdesktop. > >Before that I had tried Corel Linux but couldn't get anything. Most of the >advice I got from Corel forum was to "get rid" of my ATI All In Wonder for >it to work. Not happy with that advice. > >Finally, I spent the money on a Linux Mandrake about three weeks ago and >loaded it up on a 4GB drive and from what I could see on my TV set, didn't >have a monitor for my newly built system, I managed to load up Linux and >could see the KDE but with a TV the quality made my eyes hurt just >straining to see it. > >Eventually I put a WindowsME and two weeks after that I finally got a 17" >Futura monitor. So I wanted to install Linux again this time on a bare >30GB Western Digital drive which is meant for raw video,music, and still >photo. The whole system is meant for home video editing. Just to get a >taste of some linux distribution I tried installing again Linux for >Windows. This time I got a much faster installation but when I booted my >monitor was turned off. I uninstalled and reinstalled Linux. Tested >graphics card,resolution, and monitor. Futura is not listed. Again during >the test my monitor was turned off and back on again after the test was over. > >My question is does anyone else have a Futura Monitor with similiar >trouble. I will be putting Linux Mandrake 7.2 on its own drive when >Western Digital puts their 40GB 7200RPM 2MB drive on sale in about another >week. > >Thanks for any help. > >P.S. Please don't ask me to post in plain text I can't through MS >Explorer. Even through Outlook Express I check off plain text and nothing >happens. 01000001 00001010 01100001 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01110011 01100100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01001110 01101111 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 (Go figure it out.)
