Hi Keith On Tuesday 01 April 2003 5:30 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
However, it doesn't work in SuSE8.1. I can boot and everything looks correct. When it gets to the part of the boot process where KDM starts, the screen goes black and I get an error message: INPUT SIGNAL OUT OF RANGE. Then, nothing else happens.
Yes, 8.1 has a few little "foibles" that I found disqueiting in a product that is usually of such high quality - let's hope 8.2 is a bit better (eg provides an easy way to install LILO when GRUB won't work). What seems to be happening here is that Sax sets up the monitor to use the highest res that the graphics card is capable of, even if that is higher than the monitor can stand. I have a Hercules ProphetView 720 with the same issue. What you need to do is save your current /etc/X11/XF86Config file as something else (eg XF86Config.old), and then edit the original. Go to the "Modes" section, and remove from it all lines other than the 1024x768 one. In the "Screens" section, remove all references to resolutions higher than 1024x768.
Booting into text mode, to try to run the text mode version of Sax2 (to see if I could find anything wrong) goes well until the prompt. Typing "Sax2" makes the screen go black again with the same error message and then nothing. So I can't run Sax2 to check anything.
Unfortunately, because of this bug, you can't really use Sax to make screen changes from now on, because it will detect the highest res on the card, and set X to use that, which won't work .... Silly, really. HTH Kevin