Michael Fischer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, BandiPat wrote:
Michael, My first suggestion would be that it's a good time to update the video card as well. I'm guessing that card will not display the resolution that monitor needs. Also, a newer card, even just a 9600 or 9200 will give you a smooth setup for not much money and very good performance on your setup.
Thanks. I had an old Radeon sitting in a drawer, so I threw that in.
Rebooted, and saw the bios, grub, and the splash screen for picking the kernel. Hit enter just to get on with it, and then the monitor went back to its misbehavior about saying it was not running at an optimum resolution.
I then put back the old monitor and went into a 2 hour fight to get the thing to boot properly. Its an oldish machine which has been showing this kind of ill health for years. I'm hesitant to ever reboot it for that reason. Can take 10 tries, with full power off from the back of the box. Its still not recognizing the mouse now... *sigh*
Time to drop a bunch of money on a new machine, and pray I can figure a way to save all my files.
Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? The integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the display issues... Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org