New Monitor

[Karl Pearson]

On Mon, February 23, 2009 6:03 pm, Ted Potter wrote:
> 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
> ?

Nope, sounds like the video card has 2 outputs and it's on the wrong
one. Just a guess. I've seen hardware output go to one port, and OS
output go to the other one a couple times. Usually on ATI cards,
however. (love nVidia, personally)

Karl

>
>
>
>
>> >
>> > -----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
>> > Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
>> > friends.  John 15:13 (NIV)
>> >
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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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