Hi Beartooth:
Okei, I solved it. I hooked up my old CRT and it processed the signals
- although the screen was messy.
I found out after some experimenting that the problem boiled down to the
resolution setting.
The F 9 setup offered two alternatives: 640 x 480 and 800 x 600.
640 x 480 produced a clear picture, 800 x 600 produced "out of range".
I guess 800 x 600 was the default setting when I fired up the PC
the first time.
On my invoice for the machine the screen is listed as 1680 x 1050,
but it seems that F 9 only has the 2 alternatives listed above.
Why this is so I don't know. On my old PC is running Fedora Core 5, and
when I hook up the new LCD (the 2 PC's share one screen, keyboard and
mouse via a KVM swith - very convenient) i get the 2 alternative
resolutions under F 5 as well.
Now, since we are talking I have another question:
I did install F 9 with both Gnome and KDE. Gnome is (as before) the
default, but I have not yet found out how to switch to KDE.
(I sort of like KDE, I have gotten used to it)
It used to be the login screen, but not any more, it seems. Linux
Format (where I got the F 9 DVD) does not mention anything about how to
switch, and that is (so far) the only F 9 documentation I have.
Brgds
PAR
Beartooth wrote:
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:29:38 +0200, Per Anton Ronning wrote:
THIS HAPPENS:
from root: setup
The box "Choose a Tool" comes up, at the bottom I find "X configuration"
Running this option I see a flash of the text "Cannot find X ..:" before
the screen goes black and "out of range" appears. Esc brings me back to
the toolbox.
from root - startx:
No devices detected
No screens found
and a message telling "unable to connect to X server"
[...]
My 22" CHIMEI CMV223D
LCD screen went black and the message "out of range" appeared,
according to the vendor this means that it has got a signal which it is
unable to process. The display driver is NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT.
It didn't halt - it switched to the GUI display, but your monitor could
not display the video it was receiving.
From the Linux Format forum I got the tip to boot at runlevel 3,
which I did, and then I reached the login prompt. Since the
installation procedure did not ask me to specify a user name (blank was
not recognized) I logged on to root. which went OK. Now things seemed
normal in character mode.
I typed "setup" and got a setup which included X. I tried to configure,
but the display driver models did not include CHIMEI or CMV223D
anywhere, so then I thought I would have to try at random.
[...]
The display driver is for the video card, NOT the monitor.
[...]
Boot into run level 3, and run setup again, or run
system-config-display.
I had a lot of trouble, and got heaps of invaluable advice here,
with the display on a different (HP) 22" LCD monitor, and I think a
different video card, back in June. I'm not sure exactly how similar the
situations are, but that "out of range" message and the others got
woefully familiar for a while -- and they were all eventually licked.
If you haven't gotten it whupped in the meanwhile, you might want
to skim through threads here that I started during June and that look
relevant -- one on F9 display iirc, one called "Wide, flat, and weird,"
and one or two more. Look mainly at the responses, and try some of the
things they suggested to me to try. init3 and system-config-display,
which you've already gotten, were in there; so iirc was a lot of editing
of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ....
Hint: in case you're following the list by email, do "yum install
pan," set pan to get news.gmane.org, and take a look at
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general, which is this same list served up for
your newsreader (Pan, probably 0.132 or 0.133). That makes it easy to
sort and re-sort several ways, has a good search function, and is very
good for skimming. You can also "watch" (i.e., highlight) threads.
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