On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Roy Leembruggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although automatic hardware detection has come a long way since earlier > versions of Linux, perhaps the following problem/solution would be > worthy of comment from Linux users. > > My older PC (Windows XP) has a peculiar monitor connected to it, namely > an LCD-TFT type used as both TV Monitor / VGA pc monitor, with 9-pin VGA > connector, 24-bit colour, 1280 X 1024 resolution (Medion TFT-2055). On > installing openSuSE 11.0 on it, the monitor was wrongly detected as an > analog type so that on boot up the screen was black with an "out of > range" message on it. To make matters worse, on trying other boot > options nothing helped and to boot up in text mode (no X Window) on the > prompt for User name / password, the User name could be entered as root, > but when the next prompt (password) appeared there was no keyboard > response at all. As a result I was unable to login. >
Forgive me for asking, but what does this have to do with Evolution? mhr _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list