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

[gayathri singh]

Thanks a bunch!!!  Ctrl-Alt-F2 worked! I can see a working console now!!

Regards,
GV


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM, David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:

> 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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