Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/06/2011 01:56 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > your help worked! Just glad I could help out. > I still do not understand the ins and outs of a monitor, > but the following xorg.conf worked. The > System->Preferences->Monitor tool now offers a reasonable > selection of resolution,

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-06 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hi Kevin, your help worked! I still do not understand the ins and outs of a monitor, but the following xorg.conf worked. The System->Preferences->Monitor tool now offers a reasonable selection of resolution, including as a maximum the 1280x1024 value I was looking for. The xorg.conf file that fina

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/04/2011 11:26 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > the xorg.conf file from my last email causes the boot sequence to hang > after starting atd, probably while starting X. I resorted to my install cd > and rescue mode to rename that xorg.conf file to get back to my previous > state. Ou

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/04/2011 10:47 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Hi Kevin, > learning a bit more than I bargained for when I thought > all I had ahead of me was a simple upgrade ;) B^) >>> Section "Monitor" >>> Identifier "Monitor0" >>> VendorName "Monitor Vendor" >>> ModelName"LCD Pane

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hi Kevin, the xorg.conf file from my last email causes the boot sequence to hang after starting atd, probably while starting X. I resorted to my install cd and rescue mode to rename that xorg.conf file to get back to my previous state. - Side question: There must be a way to boot into text mode (

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hi Kevin, learning a bit more than I bargained for when I thought all I had ahead of me was a simple upgrade ;) On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 02/03/2011 09:09 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > >> Ok, here again: >> >> lspci | grep VGA >> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible contro

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-03 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/03/2011 09:09 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Ok, here again: > > lspci | grep VGA > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter > > And attached the Xorg.0.log file after I renamed xorg.conf and rebooted.

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-03 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > My apologies Burkhard,  I confused your email with another I am also > helping out with.  Please ignore the response I just posted and let me > try again.  Thank-you. > >> [...] > > Well, to begin with you are using the VESA driver, which

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
My apologies Burkhard, I confused your email with another I am also helping out with. Please ignore the response I just posted and let me try again. Thank-you. On 02/02/2011 08:30 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Xorg.0.log is long. Rather than attaching the whole thing, let > me try to select what

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/02/2011 08:30 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > xorg.conf exists now. Contains Actually, I was hoping to see the output from Xorg.0.log without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It would show us what the *system* thinks it was doing and whether or not it chose a sane driver for the video card. > Sect

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 02/01/2011 05:25 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, >>>  Burkhard Plache wrote: Hello Fellow Users, after installing F14, th

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/2011 10:10 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Burkhard Plache > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, >>> Burkhard Plache wrote: Hello Fe

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/01/2011 05:25 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, >> Burkhard Plache wrote: >>> Hello Fellow Users, >>> >>> after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, >>> whereas my BenQ FP 75

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, >>  Burkhard Plache wrote: >>> Hello Fellow Users, >>> >>> after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, >>> whereas my B

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-01 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, >  Burkhard Plache wrote: >> Hello Fellow Users, >> >> after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, >> whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There must be some >> interface (or

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Hello Fellow Users, > > after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, > whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There must be some > interface (or driver?) problem, since Preferences->Monitor does not > allow m

F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-01-31 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hello Fellow Users, after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There must be some interface (or driver?) problem, since Preferences->Monitor does not allow me to change to the desired resolution. I did not find any hints on how to proc