Newbie here with ATI card

[Nelson Montague]

> Punt. See below.
>
> >
> [snip]
> >
> >         Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
> >         Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
>
> This is a problem. The combination should at least support DDC2.

> > The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
> > EDID claims 19 more blocks left
> > EDID blocks left is wrong.
> > Your EDID is probably invalid.
> > parse-edid: EDID checksum failed - data is corrupt. Continuing anyway.
> > parse-edid: first bytes don't match EDID version 1 header
> > parse-edid: do not trust output (if any).
>
> Just as it says. It's broke (EDID) the the output can't be trusted.
>
> Can you repost the portion of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that starts
> with: Section "Monitor" to the end of the xorg.conf file?
Sure.

Here it is, NoOp:

The interesting thing is, it is either:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "MAG XJ796"
    Option        "DPMS"
    HorizSync    30-96
    VertRefresh    50-160
EndSection

Or:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
    HorizSync    30-70
    VertRefresh    50-160
EndSection

I can use it with a refresh rate of 85Hz. Interesting, isn't it?

What does this all mean?

Thank you,

Nelson