system-config-display

[galsterm at gmail.com (Matt Galster)]

On 1/23/07, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>


Have you tried a knoppix bootable CD?  I've found it can detect
reasonable X-windows settings in many funky situations.

MEG

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