Hi guys, I currently have an old Pentium 3 computer with Linux SuSE on it and I am hoping to turn it into my home server. I had an IBM CRT monitor, but my Aunt needed a new one. So I swapped monitors with her so she didn't have to go out and buy a new one. The one she gave me, she used on her Pentium 4 that was running Windows XP Home Edition. Now the problem begins.
I boot up my Linux machine, everything works fine, to an extent. This is my first time using a Linux machine so I'm not sure, a screen comes up and it's displaying all of the functions (I think?) that are loading, like saying if it's ON or OFF and all that. Then the next screen I know is the Login, from when I had my old monitor. Everything shown on the screen is a green background with white lines going up and down the screen. Is this the monitor? I'm not sure since my Aunt had WXP displaying with it...Should I get a new monitor for it?
Thanks in advance!
Sounds like a problem with the refresh rate. You'll need to change it using whatever tools SuSE has to configure X, or edit the apropriate section of your xorg.conf to set the H/V refresh rates to safe values.
Quote from: K on April 11, 2005, 06:31 PM
Sounds like a problem with the refresh rate. You'll need to change it using whatever tools SuSE has to configure X, or edit the apropriate section of your xorg.conf to set the H/V refresh rates to safe values.
How would I go about doing that? (I'm not really familar with Linux). I can't see anything anyways so how can I set the refresh rates?
Quote from: Mitosis on April 11, 2005, 06:34 PM
Quote from: K on April 11, 2005, 06:31 PM
Sounds like a problem with the refresh rate. You'll need to change it using whatever tools SuSE has to configure X, or edit the apropriate section of your xorg.conf to set the H/V refresh rates to safe values.
How would I go about doing that? (I'm not really familar with Linux). I can't see anything anyways so how can I set the refresh rates?
You can do it from a terminal -- press CONTROL + ALT + F2 to get a new text terminal. (press CONTROL+ALT+F7 to go back to your graphical session).
Navigate to your xorg.conf file. This will usually either be in your home directory or in /etc/X11/ (keep in mind you'll need to be root if you edit this second one).
emacs xorg.conf
scroll down (page down, down arrow) until you see something like this:
# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection
change the VertRefresh range and HorizSync range to the correct values. You should probably google your monitor and see what values other people use.
I have a 19" MAG Innovision 986FS and mine are
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-90.
After you make the changes, press control+x then control+s to save. Then press control+x then control+c to quit. restart your x session.
Did all that, finally figured out how. Still is all messed up, what should I do? Install Slackware? Think I will still have the problem?