Re: "Input out of Range"

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:17:28 -0500 (EST) D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Wow. I didn't know that but have wished for it. Thanks! Does it > work with proprietary AMD and nVidia drivers? I have no idea. I guess it may depend on how they ask about EDID. I'm using it with Intel video on my motherboard.

Re: "Input out of Range"

2014-11-02 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Tom Horsley | That works up to the point where you try to modify the xorg.conf | file. X pays no attention to xorg.conf most of the time these | days. What does work is getting the EDID from the monitor and | stashing it in a firmware directory where you can use it to | force the kernel t

Re: "Input out of Range"

2014-10-31 Thread jdow
On 2014-10-31 12:25, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:49:38 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: One way out is to plug the monitor into the box directly, boot up and verify that the screen comes up correctly. You can then get X to dump its settings and put those into an Xorg.conf file so it alwa

Re: "Input out of Range"

2014-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:49:38 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > One way out is to plug the monitor into the box directly, boot up and > verify that the screen comes up correctly. You can then get X to dump > its settings and put those into an Xorg.conf file so it always uses > those values. It won't matt

Re: "Input out of Range"

2014-10-31 Thread Rick Stevens
purposed and re-configured, and is now an ordinary old PC. I ran CentOS 6 > on it for years, but recently installed F 20 instead. > > When I boot it, the HP w2207h widescreen flat panel monitor gives > me a message saying "Input out of Range" and tells me to reset to

"Input out of Range"

2014-10-31 Thread Beartooth
years, but recently installed F 20 instead. When I boot it, the HP w2207h widescreen flat panel monitor gives me a message saying "Input out of Range" and tells me to reset to 1680x1050. I can ssh in -- but what little I recall of such efforts years ago, when the monitor was