Try using the vesa driver. Austin On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 15:38, jludwig wrote: > 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> >
