Problems with my Ubuntu Box

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:48:19 +1000
"David Whyte" <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:

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> This afternoon when I rebooted it, it didn't load up properly and I
> got the error message "Out of Scan Range' in a blue box.  Apparently,
> this could be caused when X doesn't recognise the monitor settings or
> something, but the monitor did not change.  A quick reboot and here I
> am now, but for how long.
> 
> At the same time, I have been getting the odd 'segfault' with my
> mythTV frontend which runs on this box.  Even with verbose logging,
> there no indication of what the error might be, and nothing has
> changed in regard to my mythTV installation.

Do you see a pattern here ? All of this is connected with the display, is
it not? You don't specifically mention what graphics card you have - I
guess it is some kind of on-board thing. If so your motherboard may be on
the way out. If not, it could be that the video/graphics drivers are at
fault - I know this kind of thing often happens to people who use the
proprietary ATI drivers, for example.

I'm no expert, but I would be focusing on graphics, X and/or monitor
settings. Have you tried

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg    ?

Have you tried hooking up  to a different monitor?

What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log look like ? Or perhaps look at dmesg | less
just after boot-up to see if there be dragons there....

Peter