F 9 problems to install

[Per Anton Ronning]

Hi Beartooth:
Okei, I solved it.  I hooked up my old CRT and it processed the signals 
- although the screen was messy.
I found out after some experimenting that the problem boiled down to the 
resolution setting.
The F 9 setup offered two alternatives: 640 x 480 and 800 x 600.
640 x 480 produced a clear picture, 800 x 600 produced "out of range".
I guess 800 x 600 was the default setting when I fired up the PC
the first time.
On my invoice for the machine the screen is listed as 1680 x 1050,
but it seems that F 9 only has the 2 alternatives listed above.
Why this is so I don't know. On my old PC is running Fedora Core 5, and 
when I hook up the new LCD (the 2 PC's share one screen, keyboard and 
mouse via a KVM swith - very convenient) i get the 2 alternative 
resolutions under  F 5 as well.

Now, since we are talking I have another question:
I did install F 9 with both Gnome and KDE. Gnome is (as before) the 
default,  but   I have not yet found out how to  switch to  KDE.
(I sort of like KDE, I have gotten used to it)
It used to be the login screen, but not  any more, it seems. Linux 
Format (where I got the F 9 DVD) does not mention anything about how to 
switch, and that is (so far) the only F 9 documentation I have.

Brgds
PAR


 




Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:29:38 +0200, Per Anton Ronning wrote:
>
>   
>> THIS HAPPENS:
>> from root: setup
>> The box "Choose a Tool" comes up, at the bottom I find "X configuration"
>>
>> Running this option I see a flash of the text "Cannot find X ..:" before
>> the screen goes black and "out of range" appears. Esc brings me back to
>> the toolbox.
>>
>> from root - startx:
>> No devices detected
>> No screens found
>> and a message telling "unable to connect to X server"
>>
>>     
> [...]
>   
>>>  My  22"  CHIMEI CMV223D
>>> LCD screen went black and the message "out of range" appeared,
>>> according to the vendor this means that it has got a signal which it is
>>> unable to process. The display driver is NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT.
>>>
>>>       
>> It didn't halt - it switched to the GUI display, but your monitor could
>> not display the video it was receiving.
>>
>>     
>>>  From the Linux Format forum I got the tip to boot at runlevel 3,
>>> which I did, and then I reached the login prompt. Since the
>>> installation procedure did not ask me to specify a user name (blank was
>>> not recognized) I logged on to root. which went OK.  Now things seemed
>>> normal in character mode.
>>> I typed "setup" and got a setup which included X. I tried to configure,
>>> but the display driver models did not include CHIMEI  or CMV223D
>>> anywhere, so   then I thought I would have to try at random.
>>>       
> 	[...]
>   
>> The display driver is for the video card, NOT the monitor.
>>     
> 	[...] 
>   
>> Boot into run level 3, and run setup again, or run
>> system-config-display.
>>     
>
> 	I had a lot of trouble, and got heaps of invaluable advice here, 
> with the display on a different (HP) 22" LCD monitor, and I think a 
> different video card, back in June. I'm not sure exactly how similar the 
> situations are, but that "out of range" message and the others got 
> woefully familiar for a while -- and they were all eventually licked. 
>
> 	If you haven't gotten it whupped in the meanwhile, you might want 
> to skim through threads here that I started during June and that look 
> relevant -- one on F9 display iirc, one called "Wide, flat, and weird," 
> and one or two more. Look mainly at the responses, and try some of the 
> things they suggested to me to try. init3 and system-config-display, 
> which you've already gotten, were in there; so iirc was a lot of editing 
> of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ....
>
> 	Hint: in case you're following the list by email, do "yum install 
> pan," set pan to get news.gmane.org, and take a look at 
> gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general, which is this same list served up for 
> your newsreader (Pan, probably 0.132 or 0.133). That makes it easy to 
> sort and re-sort several ways, has a good search function, and is very 
> good for skimming. You can also "watch" (i.e., highlight) threads.
>
>