system-config-display

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

The last couple of times we have tried to install Fedora 6 we have been 
unable to make X-windows work. In all cases

    system-config-display

hangs with the (LCD) monitor displaying a message "Input not supported" 
that is self generated, not from the computer. An hour on Google generates 
the intelligence that LCD monitors aren't as fast as CRTs, and the 
defaults for X are too fast. I haven't been able to glean any usefull 
information on what to do about the problem, though. Among other 
experiments we did try:

   system-config-display --set-hsync=40

and got as far as a display of a mouse pointer, but the system was hung. A 
similar result happened with Ubuntu. These are servers, and no great 
performance is required - VESA 800x600 would be fine. The video cards are 
older PCI cards, but they appear to be correctly recognized.

We have been installing Linux on computers since the Kernel was at .92 and 
never had so much trouble.



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