Help! I have a weird graphics problem on one of my boxes (the only one with a prayer of running VM, and I need to run some VMs).
When I start to boot up all is well. This has been true with 2 different versions of Knoppix (5.1.1 and 6.0.1) and three of Debian. (1xSqueeze, with Trinity and 2xLenny with KDE). When all but the Squeeze with Trinity reach the point of starting X, the picture disappears and the monitor complains that it is out of range. Trinity wasn't working otb and I needed this box to install the VMs. So I put on Lenny with KDE as a dual boot. Except that I don't know whether I did. The out of range message appeared. I changed the monitor, that didn't make any difference. This computer was fine until yesterday morning, when I installed the first Lenny. During the installation the installer complained about the fact that I was trying to put a partition on an already used partition. I cursed - I was trying to see whether I could persuade Squeeze and Lenny to share the same swap space - and told the installer to go back. But it insisted on finishing. So I let it go. It said that it had finished and that I should reboot. I did so, and got the out of range message. I swapped monitor with another box, but theproblem was still there. So I attributed it to the probelem during installation and decided to install Lenny as the only OS on the box. The problem did not go away. I booted into single user and looked at xorg.conf and there was very little there. So I decided to try to boot up Knoppix, chroot and copy-and-paste from Knoppix's xorg.conf to mine. I have done this before, and it can work quite well. But Knoppix 5.1.1 too started well - all the pretty colours and very clear script - then at about the moment where it should have been starting X, the screen went blank and complained of no signal. 6.0.1 had the out of range message. I am stuck. The box is second hand It has on-board graphics which I understood were turned off in the BIOS and which have certainly not worked since I've had the box. But I have tried altering the entry in the BIOS and also swapping over the connection. It is an ASRock 775i65G motherboard with Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2. I do not know what the added card is. Graphics were functioning fine until yesterday morning. Help! If you can, please! :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101211657.53568.lisi.re...@gmail.com
