X crashes when using a new monitor

[Benjamin Jiang]

Jon Savage wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:38:11 -0500, Benjamin Jiang <bjiang_ee at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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>>Hi, all,
>>
>>I installed a fresh copy of FC3 into my Dad's machine and everything
>>worked fine. However, when I brought the machine to my Dad's place and
>>plugged in his monitor (Acer 7154e), X crashes no matter what. I tried
>>config xorg.conf with the correct HorizSync and VertRefresh, but it
>>didn't even make any difference.
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><snip>
>Try booting into runlevel 3 and then
>login as root and do system-config-display --reconfig.
>
>Bests
>
>JS
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Thanks, Jon.

I did that yesterday already and no difference made.

Ben.