Monitor or XFree86?

Hi,

Just installed Suse 8.2 on a Compaq Presario Celery 566, 128 mb (in
the past it had RedHat 7.3 with no X problems). Installation went
flawlessly, it detected everything and took 1/2 hour. It was a
graphical installation.

The first real boot-up seemed to be going fine, then when it hit the
part where Xwindows should come up for user log-in, it just flickered
for a second then went black. The only thing on the screen looked
like a message from the monitor saying something like:

Out of frequency range
H: 30-54khz
V: 50-120hz

I cant even bring up Yast2 or Sax, I am guessing I will need to edit
an XFree86config file or something? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

RHR wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just installed Suse 8.2 on a Compaq Presario Celery 566, 128 mb (in
> the past it had RedHat 7.3 with no X problems). Installation went
> flawlessly, it detected everything and took 1/2 hour. It was a
> graphical installation.
>
> The first real boot-up seemed to be going fine, then when it hit the
> part where Xwindows should come up for user log-in, it just flickered
> for a second then went black. The only thing on the screen looked
> like a message from the monitor saying something like:
>
> Out of frequency range
> H: 30-54khz
> V: 50-120hz
>
> I cant even bring up Yast2 or Sax, I am guessing I will need to edit
> an XFree86config file or something? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks

Can you start in runlevel 3 by typing "init 3" Without the quotes, at the
initial grub screen while the countdown is going, it should be echoed on the
bottom lines with the kernel params.

You could then login as root and run sax or yast from the command line.

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