Advice on integrated video on friends system

[James Earl]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:46:10 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade at ub.edu.bz> wrote:
> 
> I don't know about Xorg and hardware compatibility for an ATI Rage Pro
> chip, but from what you are describing I would tend to point to an
> issue with the monitor settings rather than the video card itself.  If
> the monitor is old, then EDID information may not be available from the
> monitor, so Xorg may just try some default monitor setting that don't
> happen to work with that monitor.  Have you done some searches for Hsync
> and Vertical Refresh rates for the monitor in question?  Once you know
> these values (ranges), you can set them manually in the xorg.conf file
> under the section titled "Monitor".  For example:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         <some other directives>
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
> EndSection
> 
> As far as losing control of the display, but apparently still having
> control of the keyboard, is the machine on a network?  Can you possibly
> ssh into the box and control it remotely?
> 
> Nathan

I tested out a GNOME LiveCD, and it worked, so I've made a copy of the
xorg.conf file and will give it a try later on tonight.  The xorg.conf
used was more sparce compared to the one that I generated using Xorg
-configure, so hopefully this will be the ticket.

Thanks