X crashes when using a new monitor

[Douglas Furlong]

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Mar 2005
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> man, 07.03.2005 kl. 16.40 skrev Benjamin Jiang:
>> Douglas Furlong wrote:
>>
>> > ----- Message from bjiang_ee at yahoo.ca ---------    Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005
>> > 09:53:59 -0500    From: Benjamin Jiang <bjiang_ee at yahoo.ca>Reply-To:
>> > Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
>> > <fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com> Subject: Re: X crashes when using a new
>> > monitor      To: Jon Savage <jonathansavage at gmail.com>, Discussions about
>> > development for the Fedora desktop <fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com>
>> >
>> >> Jon Savage wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:38:11 -0500, Benjamin Jiang
>> >>> <bjiang_ee at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi, all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I installed a fresh copy of FC3 into my Dad's machine and everything
>> >>>> worked fine. However, when I brought the machine to my Dad's place and
>> >>>> plugged in his monitor (Acer 7154e), X crashes no matter what. I tried
>> >>>> config xorg.conf with the correct HorizSync and VertRefresh, but it
>> >>>> didn't even make any difference.
>> >>>>
>> >>> <snip>
>> >>> Try booting into runlevel 3 and then
>> >>> login as root and do system-config-display --reconfig.
>> >>>
>> >>> Bests
>> >>>
>> >>> JS
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> Thanks, Jon.
>> >>
>> >> I did that yesterday already and no difference made.
>> >
>> >
>> > When booting in to run level 3, log in as either a non privaliged
>> > user, or as
>> > root and running "startx", if X still crashes you should get some
>> > output in the
>> > terminal.
>> >
>> > Also look through the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log, as that will have some
>> > more
>> > information that may help us to help you.
>> >
>> > Doug
>> >
>> Doug, I pasted Xorg.0.log at the end of the first email I sent out.
>>
>> But, here is it again anyway:
>> Xorg.0.log:
>>
>
> My experience is that if X sends the wrong sync to a monitor, all that
> happens is that the monitor shows a borked picture, or nothing at all
> exept an error message. X doesn't crash...

My expearience is slightly different.

If X fails to start due to refresh rate issues, then it will fail to 
start, not
"crash" just will stop trying to load.

However this error seems to suggest that it did "crash".

It could be due to a damaged hard disk in transit? Causing a problem with some
of the libraries?


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