[PLUG] Video problem with new PC

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Thu Dec 18 04:28:40 UTC 2008


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, David Kaplan wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm having video problems with every distro I have. I wanted to install
>> Fedora 10 off the install DVD but once it gets to the installer it hangs
>> and goes nowhere. MInt, Ubuntu, both will boot up but the resolution says
>> the correct 1440x900 but it's not that at all. And the monitor is hard to
>> adjust. I've ran two other PCs with this motherboard and never had this
>> kind of problem. It must be the Nvidia nForce 430 video that having the
>> problems. A couple times it mentioned noapic but that didn't really help.
>>     
>
>    I have an nVidia GeForce 6150 board and use the nVidia driver with it.
> This works with my Acer 19" wide screen monitor at 1440x900 dpi.
>
>   
>> Where should I start to solve this problem? Any clues?
>>     
>
>    Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>
>    Also, a trick I just recently learned is to run (as root), 'X --configure'
> and use test the resulting xorg.conf to see if it does better.
>
> Rich
>
>   
I ran into the fglrx problem on my Fedora 9 upgrade.  I wanted the flgrx 
driver for dual monitor use.  I found a workaround using the xrandr 
command from Intel.  Read about it at 
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html.

Ken
CAD 2 CAM



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