[plug] X Problem (Solved)

[Mark Nold]

The same problem you described occurs when i use 1024 by whatever, but my 
monitor/videocard only supports this by scrolling.

The weirdest thing was after killing X everything was screwed.. oh well.

The final solution (i decided to have another stab at it before bed) was to 
have a look at my RH bootdisk syslinux.cfg file ... and it has a line "vga=788" 
for the install tool (which works for me) which has something to do with VESA 
frame buffer support.... anyway add this to /etc/lilo.conf and everything works 
a treat. (yeah!)

I was pretty stoked with how nice the install process had gotten till i came up 
to this. (I should have guessed something was up as the normal text terminal 
looked a bit crappy anyway)

See: http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/2791.html

Another tell tail sign that things were wrong is that i didnt see the Penguin 
that appears on booting with the bootdisk...


Thanks for your help guys,

mn



Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Wednesday, 23 May 2001 10:21, Bill Kenworthy [SMTP:billk at iinet.net.au] 
wrote:
> I have also seen this where the video card, X and the monitor get mixed
> up and the screen appears multiple times in the horizontal or partially
> offset as described.  It was due to picking monitor frequencies that
> were not supported and it was trying to do its best!
>
> Go back to XF86Setup or whatever and choose conservative settings and
> work up from there.  the X based installer uses very very conservative
> settings to enable it to work on lowest common denominator hardware.
>
> BillK
>
> Bernard Blackham wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Mark Nold wrote:
> > > 1. Any idea why X appears to work well in the install but not apon
> > > trying to use it?
> >
> > Wild stab in the dark... The install is using a different resolution to X
> > normally and the screen can't handle X's higher resolution? Try running
> > through the resolutions in X with <Ctrl><Alt><NumPad +/-> to see if any
> > work.
> >
> > In the resolutions which run off the screen, can you scroll around within
> > them with the mouse? (ie, they're not virtual desktop sizes. I'd doubt it,
> > but worth a check)
> >
> > > 2. Any idea how i could refresh my screen so that i can recover
> > > without having to reboot?
> >
> > Run the X setup program? ;)
> > I think it's XF86_Setup. Or if you can force the X server to use the
> > lower-res mode then it might solve it.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Bernard.
> >
> > --
> >  Bernard Blackham
> >  bernard at blackham.com.au