Graphics issue(Monitor out of range)

[Nedlinin]

Hey there. Moving from Linux Mint to give Fedora a try on my desktop.

I just downloaded the F10 iso, burned it and tried giving it a boot. However, as soon as X attempts to launch, monitor gives me an out of range error and I am unable to get any GUI.

Using Ctrl+Alt+F2 (confused me for a bit because I was using F1.. took me awhile to realize that the default was moved to 1 with Fedora 10 ><) Anyway, using F2, I can get to a terminal window... but, not sure exactly how to reconfigure X to have ranges that are valid for my display.

I am using a Radeon 2400 and a 17", 1280x1024 60hz LCD monitor.

I would much appreciate some help!

Thanks!

[glennzo]

Have a look at this link, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options. Boot options for the Anaconda installer. There is a text option that may be of use to you at least to get the system installed. May be other options that you could use. Once you get the OS installed you can work of the "spit & polish".

[Nedlinin]

Have a look at this link, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options. Boot options for the Anaconda installer. There is a text option that may be of use to you at least to get the system installed. May be other options that you could use. Once you get the OS installed you can work of the "spit & polish".

Well, Ive given the boot options that looked like they could be of some help a whirl(lowres, resolution) I was looking at xdriver but, I am unsure of the driver name to use with the ATI card... Lastly, dont want to do the text option as I want to make sure I can get *something* to display before I format my old partition with F10 :-/

With lowres and resolution, I still get the out of range error. I have also tried to download system-config-display and using the set flags to set the vsync and hsync rates to something useable by my monitor... However, even after this, I still received out of range errors :-/

Any other ideas on what might be helpful to give a shot?

Edit: for the record, lspci | grep -i vga gives the following output:
01:00.0 VGA Compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 2400 XT

I also tried the usefbx and vnc boot options - However, when using the vnc boot option, computer still booted to runlevel5.. and I am unable to connect with a vnc client.. soooo not too sure the boot option worked correctly :-/

[bulava]

I was looking at xdriver but, I am unsure of the driver name to use with the ATI card...


I haven't used FC10 till now, think this must be the file:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/i386/xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-38.fc10.i386.html

Please cross check it once.


Else, you should use the 3rd party driver from ATI:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

[devil_hunter]

well I had the same problem that you have, when you open the terminal type
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then try a lower resolution, you need to find out the Horizontal and Vertical sync frequencies of your monitor.

I think i had
Horizontal: 30-82
Vertical: 50-75

You might want to try that, maybe it will work for you.
Hope that helped!

[Nedlinin]

well I had the same problem that you have, when you open the terminal type
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then try a lower resolution, you need to find out the Horizontal and Vertical sync frequencies of your monitor.

I think i had
Horizontal: 30-82
Vertical: 50-75

You might want to try that, maybe it will work for you.
Hope that helped!

Well, I had figured using system-display-config would get that generated and working for me.. obviously not...

As it turns out, I do not have an xorg.conf file :-/ -- I am by no means experienced enough to write one for myself from scratch :-/ -- Is there not anyway to force an autogeneration of one from X? I tried Xorg -configure but it spits out an error that the X server is already running on display 0 and tells me to erase a file if it is not running anymore.. Trying to kill X in the way I know how (/etc/init.d/gdm stop) does not work(not found)

How might I kill X so that Xorg -configure might do its thing?

EDIT: Didnt think of using init 3... Anyways, I ran the configure command and it spits out.. "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed."
Any ideas?

[glennzo]

system-config-display --reconfig will write a new xorg.conf for you.

[Nedlinin]

system-config-display --reconfig will write a new xorg.conf for you.

Nothing - Using the reconfig flag, it attempts to start up X and I get the same out of range problem. When I check /etc/X11/ for the xorg.conf file, it is nowhere to be found :-/ -- Does the live CD store it in a different place? 0o

I am completely stuck as to what to do :(

[devil_hunter]

How about re-installing fedora? I mean what do you think its going to take you longer, trying to find a way to fix that or just a quick re-install...?

Anyhow, I have a friend who is more experienced with Linux, so ill ask his advice and maybe he has a solution for your problem... although if I didn't have that many important things saved I would just re-install fedora.

[Nedlinin]

How about re-installing fedora? I mean what do you think its going to take you longer, trying to find a way to fix that or just a quick re-install...?

Anyhow, I have a friend who is more experienced with Linux, so ill ask his advice and maybe he has a solution for your problem... although if I didn't have that many important things saved I would just re-install fedora.

The problem happens on the LiveCD before installation. I would install with the command line installer but would prefer to make sure I will be able to get a display working before I erase my current partition.