On Friday 21 January 2011 17:27:04 Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:57:53 +0000, Lisi wrote: > > 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. 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. > > 2/ You can also try to use the "vesa" driver and check if at least the > "out-of-sync" error can be bypassed. In lenny, you can select the driver > to use by tweaking "Driver vesa" stanza in your "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" > file. In Squeeze, disabling KMS should force the loading of the vesa > driver (you need to add "nomodeset" as kernel parameter at booting).
The reference to trying vesa was the clue. Rather than try it any more complicated way, I booted Puppy, and where it asked me whether I wanted to go with Xorg or chose vesa, I said vesa. And it booted fine. So then, out of interest, I rebooted and chose Xorg. This time a message came up that the graphics card was fine and had been recognised, but Puppy was getting no feedback from the monitor, and would I chose what I wanted manually from a long list. I chose, and Puppy booted without a problem in full GUI mode. So I then tried to copy the relevant parts of the Puppy xorg.conf into the installation of Lenny that I currently had on the HDD. I just got myself into a mess. So I tried an xorg.conf that I had saved for permanent reference, that worked for another monitor, that I knew to be very similar. All is now well. Presenting problem solved. Though the question remains: what went wrong, where, that suddenly the monitor was not recognised. Thanks! Lisi
