Monitor frequency still out of range

[triplemaya]

I have installed a new graphics card, and the frequency is out of range, very out of range, it won't even show up on a 21" CRT.

I have followed the advice in a previous post and checked that the resolution is in range, and also inserted this section

Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
EndSection

and also commented out the the vert and horiz line entries

Still no good.

I am running fedora 6 , and it is an Asus 7600GT card brand new.

I append below the xorg.conf file as modified.

I'd be very grateful for help to get this running.


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
# HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
# VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

[leigh123@linux]

vesa will only go upto 1024x786 max

[triplemaya]

Thanks for your reply leigh123, but I don't understand how it helps me. My problem is that the resolution is high, or some other paramter is too high. If it would run at 1280x1024, or any other lower resolution, that would be fine!

[leigh123@linux]

well try editting the modes that the vesa driver can not do

"1280x1024" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768"

[PiPcom]

Thanks for your reply leigh123, but I don't understand how it helps me. My problem is that the resolution is high, or some other paramter is too high. If it would run at 1280x1024, or any other lower resolution, that would be fine!

Hi,
Have had similar problems and have just resolved. After 3 days of trying every combination of install option was running out of ideas. Both DVI and VGA interfaces gave same out of range problems. My monitor and Video card both happen to also have and S-Video connection, so in desperation I linked it up. To my surprise, it gave me a fuzzy but useable display. This allowed me to complete setup, download updates and restart. After this, have had no problems using VGA link. Hope this helps somehow.
Regards

[triplemaya]

Thanks PiPcom. Doesn't help me as I don't have S video on the monitor. Interesting though. This seems like one of the totally weak points of fedora. One friend who uses gentoo rolls his eyes every time fedora comes up in the conversation, I think this is the kind of reason why. I have no idea why these things are so difficult to fix, but I guess I will finally be giving ubuntu and others a visit. Ubuntu boots the same system with absolutely no difficulty, but then there are other probelems. And so on, to infinity!

[Seve]

Hello:
What make/model of video card and Monitor are you using?

Seve

[triplemaya]

Hi Steve. It's an Asus 7600 GT, and a HannsG 19" tft monitor, model number HU196D.

[Seve]

Hello:
A couple of more questions ...(sorry, didn't see that you had already mentioned your video card)

Have you tried
system-config-display and set your videocard to nv ?
and or
Have you tried installing the nvidia drivers?

Edit:
Could you also post the output of the following :
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
and
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Seve