Yeap, I'd say that X is outputting a resolution that is unsupported by
your monitor. It's unlikely that there's a overdrive on the refresh, but
it could be.
Okay, put the video card back into the beastie, you're right, there's no
point in swapping it in and out, wear and tear on the pin-outs, not to
mention the "whoops I dropped it scenario".
Boot up again and wait for the monitor to die....
Can you CTRL+ALT+F1 and get to a terminal?
I'll assume you can...
login as root, you know the password...
type> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | less
That's the broken vertical bar (under unix we call that a pipe)
character between the end of the cat statement and the "less" word
(there's a space between each of those). That's found with the shift key
on and on the same key as the backslash (\), usually.
What we're saying is "catenate" the output of this file and pipe that
output to "less" a program that allows us to view it more easily. Once
in less, press space to go to the next page, use page up/page down and
press "q" to quit.
You're looking for three sections. They are : Monitor, Device, Screen.
Can you please dump those back into a reply mail.
Hang in there...
aceofspades12491@xxxxxxx wrote:
Well you are correct, im fairly new to linux.
1. To answer your first question i did infact accept many of the
defaults. I only had the burned disc 1 and 2 and im not sure if thats
of any help? But i was able to install with the two by using the
standards, but getting rid of editors, and Joystick under gnome games.
(i dont really know if you have to get rid of joystick or not).
2. I set up about a 20 gig partition for FC and 1028 megs of swap for
my 1024 mes of Ram.
3. It dual boots into windows Xp just fine, The graphics card works
under xp just as it's supposed to.
4. Ido get the text boot screen.
5. It seems as though it is trying to start the Xserver, but the
monitor then goes into sleep mode, and as an added bonus says
frequency out of range.
6. However it does not complete the boot cycle, or even get into the x
server. Its an analog 1600 by 1200 monitor.
I did infact try what Robin suggested, but after the install fedora
asks you to set up firewalls, and account names, etc. Well needless to
say that didnt work. I am able to use a different pc to view this
while viewing the problem. As for bringin the monitor back to life, it
did nothing and proceeded to sit there and face an onslaught of my
choice vulgarities.( this is about the fourth time ive tried to
install.) I am also able to take the X1600 out, and use the onboard
graphics to install, which it does boot correctly and im able to get
into fedora and play around. But having purchased a pricey gfx card,
and dual booting with windows, i dont want to swap the card in and out
every time i switch OS's.
Sorry that was a bit long, but i appreciate the help immensely.
-Matt
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