<div><br>Thanks a bunch!!! Ctrl-Alt-F2 worked! I can see a working console now!!</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>GV</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM, David Curtis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dcurtis@uniserve.com">dcurtis@uniserve.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:39:41 -0800<br>Andrew Kane <<a href="mailto:googoleyes@gmail.com">googoleyes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> It's been my experience that monitor sync rates are not always<br>
> correctly detected. For example, my Viewsonic CRT is sometimes<br>> detected as having a max vert refresh rate of 60 Hz(!) and sometimes<br>> having a max rate of 75 Hz. This monitor should be capable of 160 Hz.<br>
> This wouldn't be a big deal if one could set those parameters<br>> manually, for example by editing xorg.conf, but sadly this is no<br>> longer the case as far as I have been able to determine.<br><br></div>
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.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> This is somewhat unlikely to be identical with your problem as you are<br>> using a newer monitor.<br>><br>> If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F2, can you get a working console?<br>><br>> > On 2/10/09, gayathri singh <<a href="mailto:gayathri.t.singh@gmail.com">gayathri.t.singh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>> >> Hi There,<br>> >><br>> >> I tried installing Ubuntu linux on my machine (Windows XP) & was able to<br>> >> see the options to restart my machine with ubuntu / windows. However, I got<br>
> >> stuck at the display part. My machine autodetects : Digital Input (DVI port)<br>> >> & says:"OUT OF RANGE SIGNAL. CANNOT DISPLAY THIS VIDEO MODE, CHANGE COMPUTER<br>> >> DISPLAY INPUT TO 1680X1050 @60Hz "<br>
> >><br>> >> Has anyone come across such messages before? I think it could be a problem<br>> >> with display drivers on my system. But can anyone suggest how I could work<br>> >> around this problem?<br>
> >><br>> >> Setting the resolution & refresh rate in windows mode doesnt help :(<br>> >><br>> >> Thanks,<br>> >> GV<br>> >> --<br><br><br></div>--<br>David Curtis <<a href="mailto:dcurtis@uniserve.com">dcurtis@uniserve.com</a>><br>
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