On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 07:34, Ken Kleiner wrote: > Hello... > > X11 doesn't seem to want to work on our latest DELL GX260 with a > DELL Flat panel screen. > > The system has a Intel i845 card in it, which the OS sees fine, and works > well with a DELL 21" tube monitor (X and text). > > We've tried plugging in a DELL FP1702 (flat panel) monitor into the system > and running > > redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig --noui --verbose > > This created what appears to be the proper entries in XF86Config, but > X still crashes with server errors. > > I've tried trying just a new install (booting off of RH 8.0 CD) and even > choosing the 'text' install, but that yields a black output screen with > the 'cannot display this video mode' message on the monitor (coming from > the monitor). > > Any ideas or working configs? I have a Dell Dimension 4400, GeForce 4 MX 440, Dell 15in LCD, etc etc and it worked fine on first go. Find the native resolution, refresh rate and no. colors of your LCD, and edit XF86Config to include that and only that. Remember LCDs don't support different resolutions like CRTs do so it sounds like this may be stuffing you up. For example, my LCD has a native resolution of 1024x768, so this is all I use. In section monitor (on one line): ModeLine "1024x768" 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync Note that these number may be different for you. or in section display: SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection Also, you could wait till you get to the 'cannot display this video mode' message and try pressing ctrl-alt-keypadplus or ctrl-alt-keypadminus a few times (waiting a second or so in between) and see if a supported resolution appears. You might need to find the particular vertical and horizontal refresh rates and put these into XF86Config. You could also post the output from X when it tries to start up. That would help. Regards, -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> "We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities." -- Robin Williams, _Good Morning Vietnam_
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