Monitor problem (WAS: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com)

[David Curtis]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:39:41 -0800
Andrew Kane <googoleyes at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's been my experience that monitor sync rates are not always
> correctly detected. For example, my Viewsonic CRT is sometimes
> detected as having a max vert refresh rate of 60 Hz(!) and sometimes
> having a max rate of 75 Hz. This monitor should be capable of 160 Hz.
> This wouldn't be a big deal if one could set those parameters
> manually, for example by editing xorg.conf, but sadly this is no
> longer the case as far as I have been able to determine.

Untrue, xorg.conf is still editable and in use, xorg will try to guess what hardware you have and _then_ will parse xorg.conf and use those settings in place of the automatically guessed ones.

> This is somewhat unlikely to be identical with your problem as you are
> using a newer monitor.
> 
> If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F2, can you get a working console?
> 
> > On 2/10/09, gayathri singh <gayathri.t.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi There,
> >>
> >> I tried installing Ubuntu linux on my machine (Windows XP) & was able to
> >> see the options to restart my machine with ubuntu / windows. However, I got
> >> stuck at the display part. My machine autodetects : Digital Input (DVI port)
> >> & says:"OUT OF RANGE SIGNAL. CANNOT DISPLAY THIS VIDEO MODE, CHANGE COMPUTER
> >> DISPLAY INPUT TO 1680X1050 @60Hz "
> >>
> >> Has anyone come across such messages before? I think it could be a problem
> >> with display drivers on my system. But can anyone suggest how I could work
> >> around this problem?
> >>
> >> Setting the resolution & refresh rate in windows mode doesnt help :(
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> GV
> >> --


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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>