On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:53, Brane Lj wrote: > I installed Fedora Core 1 and as usual the setup > didn't detect my monitor properly even though it is in > the list (Hansol 500A). I choose the proper monitor > and continued the installation (this worked on > previous versions of RH). > After i installed the OS and booted it for the first > time somewhere right after starting x my monitor > turned itself off. I'm guessing the resolution set is > not supported by my monitor. I went and edited the > /etc/X11/XF86Config file - horizontal and vertical > frequencies and resolution but that didn't help. > > Lastly I used the Redhat-config-x86free (forgot the > right name) with the --reconfigure switch and i > recieved this error: > > xconf.py :Fatal IO error2 (connection reset by peer) > on x server :17.0 > > The graphics card was detected properly - Radeon7000 > For the monitor i recieved some bogus values... > > I even reinstalled the whole lot and used a standard > 800x600 monitor but no luck with that either. > > Does anyone know what else I could try beside buying a > new monitor :D > > thanks > > Conker > > > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com My old standard is to run XFree86 -configure as root and modify the resulting new configuration file XF86config.new in /root. This will usually give some lame numbers for resolution and such, but will let you know what X wants to see. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
