[Preston] Monitor setting

[Garry Taylor]

Hi all,
   In my experience, when the monitor setting are incorrect within 
/etc/X11/XConfig.4 or /etc/X11/XConfig the monitor will flicker as it tries 
the different setting. If it fails to find a sutable setting then it will 
drop to a shell (normally Bash).
If it does not drop to a shell then there is a more serious problem..

Gizard

On Friday 11 Jun 2004 3:11 am, Matthew Field wrote:
> > Matthew,
> >
> > I understand your point, but leave that for 6 months into the
> > installed system when you've got some data you need to keep. ;-)
> >
> > If the install had screwed up halfway though, you'd have has
> > no regrets rebooting and starting from scratch.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, I've now started a reinstall so
> hopefully it'll work ok.
>
> > BTW, what type of monitor and graphics card have you got?  Is
> > the card on the Red Hat hardware list?  Did you try and
> > install it as a 3D card perhaps when your card isn't
> > supported..??  Mine goes bananas under SuSE if I set it to
> > 3D, even though it's supposedly supported and a really good
> > spec one too.
> >
> > Dave.
>
> It's a 7/8 year old 17" generic monitor through a KVM switch. The
> graphics card is SIS and built on to the motherboard. Seems to be
> working now. Just got to learn what I'm doing with it and find something
> useful for it to do.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthew Field
>
>
>
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