<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hi Rouben,<br>I already reinstalled ubuntu studio 7.04<br>I am getting a new flat screen lcd in the week.Will try again when I get monitor.Current monitor is IBM P72,about 10 yrs old.I will keep this info to use if it happens with new monitor.<br>Thanks for info.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Rouben <rouben@rouben.net><br>To: ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:15:46 PM<br>Subject: Re: booting problem 7.04<br><br><div>Hello Laurie,<br><br>When you're getting the "out of scan range" message, can you try<br>pressing the following key combinations on your keyboard for me<br>please? Also, can you please tell us the
make and model of your<br>monitor, as well as the size and type (e.g. mine is a Samsung<br>Syncmaster 151N, 15 inch, LCD flatpanel).<br><br>Here's how to do these properly (if you ever had to do the "three<br>finger salute", also known as "Control Alt Delete", this should be old<br>news):<br><br>1. Hold down the Control/Ctrl (depents on keyboard) button.<br>2. Without releasing the Control/Ctrl button, hold down the Alt<br>button, so that both are down.<br>3. With both Control/Ctrl and Alt down at the same time, tap the other<br>key (whatever it happens to be, such as + or - in our case).<br><br>NOTE: Please make sure that you use the + and - key that's off to the<br>far right side of the keyboard (i.e. on the numeric keypad) and *not*<br>on top of the main section of the keyboard (where the letters are).<br><br>Control Alt +<br>Control Alt -<br><br>Normally when the video driver is setup, the installer probes your<br>monitor to figure out what video modes are supported.
The reason why<br>you're seeing that error message is because the video driver or your<br>monitor mistakenly chose a video mode that the monitor can't handle.<br>The above two key combinations will instruct the video driver to try<br>different resolutions. When you do that your monitor may flicker and<br>perhaps even turn itself on and off, and hopefully as you do this, one<br>of the video modes it hits will work for you.<br><br>If this doesn't help, you should be able to exit out of the GUI and go<br>to text mode by using this key combination:<br><br>Control Alt F1<br><br>You can then login as yourself (note when you type your password, you<br>won't see anything on the screen, not even asterisks; that is normal).<br>Once in text mode, you can then troubleshoot the problem further (e.g.<br>edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that it uses the "nv" driver rather than<br>the "nvidia" driver that's giving you all this grief). We can focus on<br>that later, first let me know if video
mode switching with the<br>keyboard helped or not.<br><br>Hope this helps!<br><br>Rouben<br><br>-- <br>ubuntu-ca mailing list<br>ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com<br><a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>