[Scottish] SuSe 10 Installation

[Robert Barbour]

I tried 'sax2 -l' and got sax2 running properly, so far so good!

I tried setting 640x480 at 60 Hz, but still got the out of range message.

I take your point about lack of information :
Graphics adaptor is AGP GEF2 MX4000 with 64MB DDR.
Monitor is 15 inch Logix, model MP503.
Both are around 4-5 years  old.

I saw an option in sax2 to set the upper limits on  horizontal and vertical frequencies, so I tried reducing them to H 40 kHz and V 50 Hz.

The test before saving option in sax2 just produced light blue/white screens with feint vertical lines, and still no success!

Any suggestions for settings to try?

Regards
Rob

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 Message Received: Feb 23 2006, 06:47 AM
 From: "ray" <rayH at engineering-intelligence.co.uk>
 To: "SLUG-list" <scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk>
 Cc: 
 Subject: Re: [Scottish] SuSe 10 Installation
 
 Rob,
 
 This is the Linux version of "Plug and Pray Hell".  Your monitor has claimed 
 that it can display whatever your graphics adaptor will throw at it when it 
 can't. The "Input signal out of range." message is coming from the monitor. 
 Mostly I see this from (older) fixed resolution LCD monitors. Really old CRTs 
 do not normally show any message. 
 
 On Wednesday 22 February 2006 22:06, Billy wrote:
 > If it doesn't work, then try "sax2 -l" which will run in 640x480 at
 > 60hz.
 
 This is nearly right, but Sax2 with SuSE10.0 has 800x600 at 75Hz as its --lowres 
 mode. Check out 'sax2 --help'. 
 sax2 --vesa 0:640x480 at 60
 will start sax2 with a standard vga screen
  If you know the monitor and graphics card specifications you can try e.g.
 sax2 --vesa 0:1024x800 at 70
 
 If you have a modern-ish multi-sync vdu you could use that to get a working 
 graphics system and then yast2|sax2 to configure for the target monitor.
 
 P.S. You might get better answers quicker if you gave out a bit more 
 information initially. E.g. this is a display problem, but we do not know 
 what monitor and graphics adaptor you are using.
 
 -- 
 ray
 
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