Monitor settings during install good; After install bad

Richard Humphrey rlhumphrey at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 18:43:19 UTC 2004


Can you get the horizontal and vertical sync rates for your monitor?
If so, you can plug that into your xorg.conf and it may work that way.


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:00:05 -0800, Dwight A
<virtually_dwight at hotmail.com> wrote:
> What are the monitor settings during installation of Fedora Core (in
> general)?
> 
> Specifically, I've tried FC2 and FC3 for x86_64 and although my video card
> is detected correctly as ATI Radeon 9200SE while my monitor is not detected
> (reported as "Unknown monitor"), the video screen during installation is
> fine.  The installation appears to use X Windows successfully.  Is it really
> using X Windows during install?
> 
> During post-install, I've set the monitor to Generic CRT 1024x768, Millions
> of colors, which I would expect from my MaxTech XT-5888; but upon reboot and
> after grub, the screen is corrupted such that I cannot read anything on the
> screen.
> 
> I also reinstalled and kept the default monitor settings as 800x600,
> Millions of colors, and also had a corrupt screen.
> 
> If I could use the monitor settings that are used during install, I assume
> my screen would not be corrupt.  What are the monitor settings during
> install and how can I use them after install?
> 
> Regards,
> Dwight
> 
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