[BUGS] probs.

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 13/03/2008, at 9:08 AM, munchausen wrote:

>   The story so far :-( I managed 2 get Gnome up N running at 640 x  
> 480.
>    I then switched from the on board video to a Nvidia at which point
>    the screen jumped up to 856 x 480. I should have quit while ahead,
>    BUT at this point in time the parcel man knocked on my door and
> delivered
>    a MB I bought on EBay so I installed that. Since then I have never
> been able to
>    get Gnome running at all. The new MB (ASrock) has on board video
> which,of
> course I tried 2 use. It also came with a fancy Gigabyte ATI 9600 ATI
> card which doesnt
>  work either. I tried a spare Cirrus Logic card but no luck with that.
> the Monitor
>  is a Sony triniton Multiscan G420. I tried xorgcfg -textmode which
> only shows an unlisted card
>  and invites me to tell it what freq etc. the monitor is capable of.
> I'll have another go 2 day
>  after my morning cruise in my Volvo with the Free BSD stickers on :-)
>  M.

I'm not entirely sure why you keep changing the hardware.. Any of  
those cards work fine with X..

If you just set your video driver to 'vesa' and don't set any monitor  
frequencies (they will be determined via DDC).

You also need to actually set a mode with the resolution you want,  
when in X you can switch between configured modes by pressing Ctrl+Alt 
+KeyPad Plus and Minus, it's quite likely your configuration already  
has higher modes, you just need to switch to them?

It's very difficult to tell you anything more without seeing your  
config file..