X crashes when using a new monitor

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 07.03.2005 kl. 20.39 skrev Benjamin Jiang:
> Douglas Furlong wrote:
> 
> > ----- Message from kyrre at solution-forge.net ---------    Date: Mon, 07 
> > Mar 2005
> > 18:51:56 +0100    From: Kyrre Ness Sjobak 
> > <kyrre at solution-forge.net>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: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
> > <fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com>
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >
> Let me try to copy the whole /usr/X11R6 directory from a working FC3 
> machne then. Is that the only directory? Maybe /usr/lib/X11 as weel?
> 
> Ben.

Urk?!? If you are running slackware, go ahead. Since you are running
fedora, i would probably more suggest to remove xorg by rpm and then
reinstall it (maybe just use --nodeps when removing it, as you are going
to plug it right back in again) from known good media