Newbie here, sorry if this is offtopic I have been given some old hardware with win98 and a set of suse 8 pro CD's... suse seems to have installed ok The video adaptor is an ATI Rage II pci and recognised ok The 14" CRT monitor seems to be an ESCOM model EM-141LR and is not in the Yast list of monitors, as I have no manual, disk or information about it I selected VESA 800x600 @ 60hz Horiz freq 31 - 37.9 Vert freq 50 - 60 Now each window that displays on the screen has a 2cm strip down the left hand side where the display is steady and readable but the rest of the window is flickering and virtually unreadable Would a later version of suse fix the problem automatically? I have googled for the settings for this old monitor to no avail. Could anyone advise them to me please. Regards Brian Glover
On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:50, Brian Glover wrote:
The 14" CRT monitor seems to be an ESCOM model EM-141LR and is not in the Yast list of monitors, as I have no manual, disk or information about it I selected VESA 800x600 @ 60hz Horiz freq 31 - 37.9 Vert freq 50 - 60
Are you sure about the model and make of the monitor? I did a search on google and all I got for 141LR is a VGA extender. Try checking again, and check out this url: http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html Great resource for finding out specs on monitors..., saved me more than a few times. ;) Dana -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Brian Glover wrote:
I have been given some old hardware with win98 and a set of suse 8 pro CD's...
suse seems to have installed ok
The video adaptor is an ATI Rage II pci and recognised ok
The 14" CRT monitor seems to be an ESCOM model EM-141LR and is not in the Yast list of monitors, as I have no manual, disk or information about it I selected VESA 800x600 @ 60hz Horiz freq 31 - 37.9 Vert freq 50 - 60
Now each window that displays on the screen has a 2cm strip down the left hand side where the display is steady and readable but the rest of the window is flickering and virtually unreadable
Are you sure it is a setting and not a bad monitor? It wouldn't surprise me that a monitor of such age would be bad. Does it have an OSD? Is it clear? How about the BIOS screen before the OS loads? I would think your choice of settings to be very reasonable and compatible, so i would make sure it isn't just bad hardware. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Thursday 27 July 2006 23:50, Brian Glover wrote:
Newbie here,
sorry if this is offtopic
I have been given some old hardware with win98 and a set of suse 8 pro CD's...
suse seems to have installed ok
The video adaptor is an ATI Rage II pci and recognised ok
The 14" CRT monitor seems to be an ESCOM model EM-141LR and is not in the Yast list of monitors, as I have no manual, disk or information about it I selected VESA 800x600 @ 60hz Horiz freq 31 - 37.9 Vert freq 50 - 60
Is there any chance you have the windows INF file for it as Yast will read it off a floppy disk with it on and use those settings. regards Ian -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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