FC2 graphical installer -> monitor goes blank (no signal)

[fredex]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:17:19AM -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> the installer detects my video card properly, but then detects "unknown 
> monitor".  then it tries to start X and my monitor goes blank (gets no 
> signal).
> 
> i tried starting the installer with the line "linux acpi=off apm=off" 
> because having those on have caused problems with starting X causing the 
>  monitor to lose signal.
> 
> any ideas?  thanks for the help.

That means it's trying to drive your monitor to frequencies that are
outside its supported range of settings, so the monitor shuts itself
off in self-defense. (in the olden days, before monitors would do
a self-shutdown like that, it was not uncommon to have a monitor go
up in smoke when you overdrove it.) You need to give it set the real
settings for your monitor if you can't pick the correct monitor from
the provided list.

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