out of range

[barclay982]

i got to the 'setup' menu and could only choose 800x600 or 640x480, and 
tried to choose generic lcd as opposed to generic crt; it the seemed to 
save some changes but when i rebooted it went to 'out of range' after 
grub/boot;

barclay

Craig White wrote:
> Tim suggested runlevel 3 and I may have led you down the wrong path on
> runlevel 1.
>
> either change the 1 to a 3 in my instructions or if you are already on
> the computer, type 'init 3' to switch to runlevel 3. Then try to run
> 'startx'
>
> Craig
>
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:39 -0400, barclay982 wrote:
>   
>> i just tried you idea and it seemed to work, the append args; but it 
>> ended up telling me, after i ran system-config-display --reconfig this 
>> message: "no video cards were found on this machine"
>> any idea(s)?
>>
>> thanks much,
>>
>> barclay
>>
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 18:31 -0400, barclay982 wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> i have not even got the the point of executing xwindows, i only get out 
>>>> of the bios, into lilo or the like, how do i get to the xwindows 
>>>> settings from lilo?
>>>>
>>>> barclay
>>>>
>>>> Test wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> i meant checking the settings of your X-windows...
>>>>>
>>>>> Your X-windows settings are probably set incorrect. (too high a
>>>>> resolution for your monitor...)
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't have the details at hand, do some googling for X-windows and
>>>>> resolution settings..
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>> ----
>>> boot screen where it counts down before it boots is not lilo but rather
>>> grub.
>>>
>>> If you press the letter 'a' in grub, it allows you to 'append' arguments
>>> to kernel for booting.
>>>
>>> If you add the number one (1) to the boot line, press 'Enter' and press
>>> 'b', you will then boot with the option 1 which means boot to runlevel 1
>>>
>>> at that point, try executing the command...
>>>
>>> system-config-display --reconfig
>>>
>>> and see if you can configure the display settings appropriately. Once
>>> you changed your settings, click OK to save the changes and exit. You
>>> can test by running the command 'startx'
>>>
>>> If all works well, type 'init 5' to get to normal runlevel or just
>>> reboot by typing 'shutdown now -r'
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
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