Monitor Not Optimum Mode/Screen Black/Can't Get Back

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 19:34 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 6/15/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 18:00 -0400, Rob Butts wrote:
> > > After just installing Fedora 7 on a new drive I was setting the screen
> > > resolution to 1600 x 1200.  The screen went black with a gray box
> > > voting around that reads:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Not Optimum Mode
> > >
> > > Recommended Mode: 1600 x 1200
> >
> > What mode did you get?  /var/log/Xorg.0.log should tell you.
> 
> No it wouldn't, not unless you hardcode it.

That looks a lot like English, but it makes no sense.  The X log does
tell you what mode it's attempting.  When it prints the list of modes
that survived validation, the first one is the default.

- ajax