Last year, I installed SuSE 9.1 on my wife's pc , which has a Sony TFT screen. I got an error message along the lines of "frequency out of range", after which installation aborted. I used another Pc to google about this problem, and managed to find a solution. Yesterday I replaced my CRT with a new Samsung TFT screen, satrted mt computer (SuSe 9.2), and got a black screen with an error message "no video mode available". Nothing in the SuSe administration handbook about this. Again I spent a good hour trying to solve the problem. The solution involved booting into text mode, but then the wrong Samsung screen was detected, and sax2 choked on the monitor and displayed the familiar "no video mode available". It's working now. Surely this is unacceptable for a modern Linux distribution, considering that most PC's are now sold with a TFT screen. FX
FX Fraipont wrote:
Surely this is unacceptable for a modern Linux distribution, considering that most PC's are now sold with a TFT screen.
This also happens with Windows when I forgot to switch to a safe mode resolution and frequency before setting up my new LCD monitor. Since my monitor is on the KVM switch, I had to SSH into my SuSE 9.1 Linux file server from my Windows machine to set the right resolution and frequency before the display could work. While it would be nice if the LCD monitor could broadcast it's safe or preferred video mode and the video card automatically re-adjust, it's more of a hardware problem than a Linux problem. Christopher Reimer
On Saturday 25 December 2004 8:59 am, FX Fraipont wrote:
Last year, I installed SuSE 9.1 on my wife's pc , which has a Sony TFT screen. I got an error message along the lines of "frequency out of range", after which installation aborted. I used another Pc to google about this problem, and managed to find a solution.
Yesterday I replaced my CRT with a new Samsung TFT screen, satrted mt computer (SuSe 9.2), and got a black screen with an error message "no video mode available". Nothing in the SuSe administration handbook about this.
Again I spent a good hour trying to solve the problem. The solution involved booting into text mode, but then the wrong Samsung screen was detected, and sax2 choked on the monitor and displayed the familiar "no video mode available". It's working now.
Surely this is unacceptable for a modern Linux distribution, considering that most PC's are now sold with a TFT screen.
FX Check the list archives, especially http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Dec/0409.html and see if that doesn't fix your Samsung monitor. IF this is your challenge also then this fix is good for as long as the Monitors db doesn't change. You may have to add your monitor's specs into the Monitors db but that shouldn't be too hard.
Stan
Stan Glasoe wrote:
Check the list archives, especially
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Dec/0409.html and see if that doesn't fix your Samsung monitor. IF this is your challenge also then this fix is good for as long as the Monitors db doesn't change. You may have to add your monitor's specs into the Monitors db but that shouldn't be too hard.
Stan
As I mentioned in my message, I got it to work in the end, by using the manufacturer cd option in yast. My gripe is that an operating system that you pay 89€ for and that is marketed as "at least as easy to install and use" as Windows should at least provide an approximate working graphical mode that you can fine tune later, particularly since the piece of kit that is causing the problem is a TFT screen that now comes standard with most new computers. I have been using SuSE since 5.3, and have been linux only for five years now, but this had me bugged for some time. </end of gripe> Happy New Year to everyone. FX
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