I have played with the monitor refresh settings since the problem began,
other than that the config is the same. Using just startx (no params) to
start. I even installed windows on the box to see if it would come up (and
it had fine video, maybe not the same refresh rates though.)
Blackbox wm was the only new thing that I had installed. I used it for a
while then went back to enlightenment. The problem started when I rebooted
many hours later.
Could I have screwed up only one of the sync rates on the monitor? It is a
quite old monitor. But that wouldn't explain my box locking up.
At 10:07 AM 8/24/99 -0500, Preston Landers wrote:
>Before you call it a video card problem, can you think of anything you
>might have changed at all on the system (software or hardware) between
>when it was working and when it stopped working?
>
>If not, have you tried opening the case, dusting everything out,
>taking the video card out of its slot and reseating it? My video card
>sometimes works its way out of its slot if the computer's been on for
>a long time and then goes off for a while (expansion and contraction.)
>Weird things result from that.
>
>Are you sure you've got the same settings for X that you had before
>when it worked?
>
>How are you starting X? Are you passing any commands to startx?
>
>like:
>
>$ startx -- -bpp 16
>
>??
>
>---Preston
>
>
>Damon Parker writes:
> > Everything else seems to work just fine text mode even the red and
> blue cmd
> > line linuxconf works just fine. I used xf86config and Xconfigurator. I
> > even backed up my data and did a fresh install still same problem. On
> > startx the script scrolls up the screen and then the vid goes black
> like it
> > is trying to sync but it never does. Then nothing will halt it other
> than
> > a hard reboot.
Damon Parker
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