New Monitor

[Ted Potter]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, john maclean <jayeola at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/24 Brenda Radford <brkittycat at verizon.net>:
> > I think I am in trouble already because I am top posting, but blame it on
> > Windows.
> >
> > When I turn the Red Hat box on with the new monitor hooked up, I get the
> > motherboard splash screen and then the screen goes blank. I do not see
> any
> > of the text I am supposed to see when the computer is booting up.
> >
> > Does that change your answer of what to try to do? I tried Ctrl-Alt-F1
> with
> > no results on the screen.
> >
> > I should have given more detail when I asked the question.
> >
> > Thanks, Bob, what do I do now?
>

sounds more like a DOA to me. What leads you to think the OS is loading ?




> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure
> Jr
> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:18 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: New Monitor
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:56:15PM -0500, Brenda Radford wrote:
> >> I got a new monitor and I have been using it with my Windows box, but
> > today
> >> I tried to hook it up to my Red Hat box with no luck. What do I have to
> do
> >> to get the monitor working with Red Hat?
> >
> > I presume you see most of the booting process and when it finishes
> > booting, you get a blank or badly garbled screen.  At that point do a
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1.  That should put you in a text screen with a login
> > prompt.  Log in as root.  Then run
> >
> >  system-config-display
> >
> > It should figure out what your monitor is and come up with an
> > acceptable set of choices for resolution, defaulting to the highest
> > available.
> >
> > If the best it can come up with is 800x600, then it probably can't
> > figure out what your monitor is.  In that case, click on the
> > "Hardware" tab.  If, for monitor, it says "unknown", hit the
> > "Configure" button to hand-enter either your monitor make and model,
> > or the best description you can find like "Generic LCD 1024x768".
> >
> > If everything is fine, hit OK to exit back to the text mode.  Then hit
> > Ctrl-D to terminate the login.  Then hit Alt-F7 to return to what
> > should be the GUI.  If it's still blank or blitzed, hit
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart the X server, or, if worse comes to
> > worst, reboot.
> >
> > Let us know if that doesn't do it.
> >
> >> Thanks in advance
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> > bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
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>
> Silly question but do you have another monitor that you could hook up
> to this box just to confirm that it can send ouput to "something"?
>
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Ted Potter
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