I loved this problem. The solution is usually:

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"as moron said up there, just ctrl-alt-F[1-6] until you get a working text-based terminal, log in, and edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf - the above link should point you in the right direction as far as setting the horizsync and vertrefresh under the "monitor" section. once you set them, the easiest thing to do is reboot the system, but you could also just hit ctrl-alt-F7 to go back to the X virtual terminal, and then ctrl-alt-backspace to reset the X server."

Forgetting the annoyance of having to look it up in the first place it's nice that you have to look all this stuff up online and on a seperate CPU (since the linux one will not display) to boot. Then you have to lookup how to restart the X server. Then when you find that it has some dependency on something else you look up that and repeat repeat repeat. It is great when you finally are over the learning curve. The simple task of swapping monitors has windows in the slight lead in the OS war as far as I am concerned.

You can either 1) plug a new monitor in and start working on it right away without so much as a thought about getting it to work or 2) Search, read, search, read, learn, still have to go through the ordeal of manually setting a file that is hidden in a different place every time you look for it.

10/19/2005 8:01:33 AM

^ that is pretty much the solution here, but since RH9 uses XF86 instead of X.org the file to edit is /etc/X11/XF86Config. There should be a xf86config script to set this up as well (or something similar); however if you only need to change monitor settings, it would be easier to just edit the file directly. That being said, vtecat5000, you could use pretty much any text editor installed by default on your Linux system. This will probably be nano, pico, vi, or emacs. nano and pico will probably be easiest for you, google to find out how to use them or just start tinkering around.

10/19/2005 12:22:07 PM