Ega monitor and SuSe
After having to send my 17" monitor in for a repair, I connected a spare monitor from which I assumed it was VGA. It stopped working after three days although I had set it the lowest refresh rate I could find. The boot process from Suse (I have disabled the splash screen) was unreadable and the password I entered after the led of the hard disks stopped blinking. It gave me a workable KDE desktop until it stopped ;-(. Not much wiser after this happening I connected a black and white monitor from which I also assumed it was vga. The monitor stopped working after some hours. Now I have the feeling that these monitors were ega but due to the absence of any indication on the monitor I am still not sure. Now I am on my last reserve monitor, same as the black and white which I broke before and I am for the time being staying in Dos until know how to proceed with SuSe on a monitor which is most probably not a vga. Any chance that I may start working with SuSe? I have SuSe 8.0, a pentium II with 400hz. -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.
I'm not a hardware guru, but I believe that the connectors on an EGA and VGA are different. I think that your problem may have been that you were overdriving the spare monitors. If you have the clock settings incorrect, you can damage the monitor). It is important to know the correct refresh rates (both vertical and horizontal) for any monitor you put in place. Also, the issue is with XFree86 and not SuSE specifically. I would first boot into command line mode (run level 3). Make a copy of /etc/XF86Config so that when you get your 17" back, you can easily restore the settings. Then run sax2 by hand. However, you appear to have broken 3 successive monitors. I'm wondering if there may be a problem with your video card itself. On 15 Jul 2002 at 21:59, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
After having to send my 17" monitor in for a repair, I connected a spare monitor from which I assumed it was VGA. It stopped working after three days although I had set it the lowest refresh rate I could find. The boot process from Suse (I have disabled the splash screen) was unreadable and the password I entered after the led of the hard disks stopped blinking. It gave me a workable KDE desktop until it stopped ;-(. Not much wiser after this happening I connected a black and white monitor from which I also assumed it was vga. The monitor stopped working after some hours.
Now I have the feeling that these monitors were ega but due to the absence of any indication on the monitor I am still not sure. Now I am on my last reserve monitor, same as the black and white which I broke before and I am for the time being staying in Dos until know how to proceed with SuSe on a monitor which is most probably not a vga.
Any chance that I may start working with SuSe? I have SuSe 8.0, a pentium II with 400hz.
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On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 14:59, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
After having to send my 17" monitor in for a repair, I connected a spare monitor from which I assumed it was VGA. It stopped working after three days although I had set it the lowest refresh rate I could find. The boot process from Suse (I have disabled the splash screen) was unreadable and the password I entered after the led of the hard disks stopped blinking. It gave me a workable KDE desktop until it stopped ;-(. Not much wiser after this happening I connected a black and white monitor from which I also assumed it was vga. The monitor stopped working after some hours.
Now I have the feeling that these monitors were ega but due to the absence of any indication on the monitor I am still not sure. Now I am on my last reserve monitor, same as the black and white which I broke before and I am for the time being staying in Dos until know how to proceed with SuSe on a monitor which is most probably not a vga.
Any chance that I may start working with SuSe? I have SuSe 8.0, a pentium II with 400hz.
EGA monitors have 9-pin D-connectors. There is no way you could have connected one of those unless you were using s Hyundai VGA ( 15->9 ) cable or similar. Even if you ( theoretically ) could have connected an EGA monitor to your VGA card, there is I think no way you could have gotten an image. Most likely the monitors you were using are old pre-vesa monitors, most of which could do 640x480ni, 1024x768i but not 800x600. The black and white ones are 640x480 max ( at least out of the ~10 or so brands of bw monitors I have used throughout time ). They might show something at 1024x768i, but that's pushing your envelope... The most likely explanation for the monitors working for some time, and them malfunctioning is that fluor-tubes ( CRTs ) and capacitors ( electrolytes ) don't handle storage very well. The bw monitor is by my guess from '90-'93 so for how many years have you _not_ been using it ? And once it got shaky, how much did you push it until it gave in ? -tosi
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