On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 22:50 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I've installed 10.1 on a lab rat machine and it went ok. The few glitches I've mentioned under 'General comments about 10.1".
I also installed it on an IBM Thinkpad X30 and it also went ok with the same glitches.
So having 'proofed' it so to speak, I attempted to install it on my main machine which is pretty stock.... an Intel board running a 2.8ghz Pentium, and an ATE Radeon card... the same as the lab rat machine.
It also has a Viewsonic LCD monitor which the lab rat didn't. The lab rat has a Viewsonic CRT monitor.
In any event, I cannot for the life of me get 10.1 to work with the LCD monitor even though it worked under 10.0. At this point, every time I try to use SAX2 to do any configuring, (even using the -l option) it screws up the monitor and then it is hard reset time.
The monitor wants to run at 1600x1200 at about 75hz but even bringing over the xorg.conf from 10.0 didn't make things work. (I'm using 10.0 to write this)
Even the install had to be interrupted because when I went to 'test configuration', it screwed up the monitor and it was hard reset time again.
NOTE: one thing I discovered in all this is that when SAX2 displays the current settings.... it shows (for me) VIEWSONIC VP201B which is correct. But it doesn't tell you that behind the scenes, it has no definitions for a VP201B. Maybe a VP201MB but it doesn't tell you that it DOESN"T KNOW SQUAT about your monitor. It just reports the correct monitor as obtained from the monitor itself and leads you to believe that it knows what it is doing. <NOT>
So at this point 10.1 is going in the trash as my main system. Too many problems. I remember throwing 8.1 in the trash too so maybe it's just the even-numbered DOT 1 systems that are no good. If so, I can live with that.
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If you have the driver disk for the monitor you should be able to install the settings from that. If you are throwing the box in the trash can you make sure it has my address on it first. :-) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998