[PLUG] Video problem with new PC

[David Kaplan]

I plugged it into my other 19" Samsung this 1280x1024 res. and it did the
same thing, where its distorted even though it shows the correct resolution.
I think that the AMD X2 4600 cpu doesn't work well the the ASUS mboard that
has the Nvidia GeForce 6100 GPU and nForce 430 chipset. So maybe another
video card is the answer?



On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> wrote:

> 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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