On 10/19/2007 10:40 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote: > Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >> On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: >> >>> So I re-installed the 9200, and my monitor >>> says "mode out of range", which happens with this card during default >>> res installation, Don't even see the command line running by on boot. >>> >>> >> So it sounds to me like it is your monitor specs which are causing your >> problems. Do you know the specs? > > > My monitor works OK, but 1280x1024 wont run on my radeon 9200 card. I realize mine is an 9200 SE, but I don't think they are that different. Mine is currently running 1280x1024. > If I set the boot to 1024x768 I can see the boot screen, and the text. So there is progress. Sounds like the frequencies of your monitor are not compatible with what the card puts out at particular resolutions. > Thanks for pointing out how to set that in grub. For some reason the > installer on 10.3 and 10.2 does not detect that so I have to set the > res first then all goes well. This is something you set when you first install. There is no way for it to set this before it has run. I believe it is F2 or F3. > Until I get to runlevel 5, then no gui. Is your monitor blanking out? Loosing sync? What happens? > I tried a different vid card, but with the known good card, 9200, 10.3 > will not run kdm. 10.2 does. Is the monitor section from 10.2 the same as 10.3? How about the mode lines? > > I just installed the ati fglrx driver to run wtih the 9200, but that > does not work either. I believe the card is getting wrong info about the capabilities of your monitor and are pushing it beyond its limit. > So all 4 drivers I've tried, vesa, ati, radeon and fglrx will not boot > into a gui. You changed the drivers, did you change your monitor info? If they all get the wrong info and overdrive your monitor, because it thinks it is capable of a high horizontal freq or something, it will cause your monitor to blank. > Short of changing my mother board, I guess I can try buying an > inexpensive nvidia card. But I really don't want to spend the $$ on an > agp card. I am not sure that would even fix it I'm afraid. Is your monitor auto detected? Can you boot to runlevel 3? Can you run sax2?
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