Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, everybody. > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 20:50:01 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 19:36:49 +0100, Michael wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 27 August 2024 17:05:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 14:49:14 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:54:20 +0100, Michael wrote: >>>>>> On Monday, 26 August 2024 11:40:43 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 22:04:05 +0100, Michael wrote: > [ .... ] > >>>> When I got back home again and plugged in the new machine, it was >>>> slightly different. It was still pumping out 2112x1116, but the >>>> 2" gap has become a 1" gap on both the left hand and the right >>>> hand sides. There's still a (smaller) gap at the top. I haven't >>>> yet tried booting into Linux. >>>> At least we now have an indication of something "analog" perhaps not >>>> being in order. I'm thinking that perhaps my HDMI->DVI adapter is >>>> broken. I should have bought a new one while I was at the shop, just to >>>> test. I did have trouble with Windows laptops when I plugged them in >>>> via this adapter a couple of years ago. Maybe I'll go back to the shop >>>> to get that new HDMI->DVI adapter tomorrow. > Well, I now have that new HDMI->DVI adapter, and my video now works! > Both the console and X Windows (running XFCE) work fully. There must > have been a dodgy connection in my old adapter, possibly in a timing > twisted pair, or something like that. > > As always, after solving such a problem, one wonders why it took so long > to fix. I was convinced it was something in the motherboard's firmware, > and it took an actual demonstration of it working on an HDMI monitor to > persuade me otherwise. > > Anyhow, now to finish setting the machine up, in particular getting an > email server installed and configured. > > Many thanks to the people who helped me diagnose the problem, > particularly Michael and Dale. > > [ .... ] > >> -- >> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >
Very welcome. You may have noticed that HUGE thread where Micheal and I were banging at a monitor on my new rig. Turns out, bad cable, adapter or both. New monitor, two new monitors later actually, and I still had one monitor winking at me. New cable with no adapter fixed that. I might add, second monitor still has the adapter and works just fine. I also had a hard drive once that was spitting out some sort of error. Turned out, cable wasn't making a good connection. Unplug, re-plug and carry on. I might add, after recent move of all my hard drives to a new case, some drives are having that error again. I detect new cables in their future. May unplug and re-plug as a test tho, just in case. This is why I try to have extra cables hanging around in a box somewhere. It seems cables tend to have issues. I think part of it is the cheap way they make them. I have several XTar VC4 battery chargers. The power cables to those things is always giving me fits. It's hard to find a quality cable that doesn't cost a arm and a leg. Glad you got it going. :-D Dale :-) :-)
