On 02/29/12 16:41, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I recently bought a new Gradtec PC To TV component because my old Grand > Pro Ultimate XP that I bought in 2004 was on its last legs. We used the > Ultimate XP so that we could use the living room TV as a monitor, so > that we could watch MythTV in the living room. The Ultimate XP was > having a problem where after I logged into X the video would go all > screwy; it was all static-y and the top half of the video output would > appear at the top half of the screen and again at the bottom half. I > dragged a real monitor in there and attached it to the end of the > external monitor plug on the component and everything displayed normally > on the monitor, but still screwy on the TV. I bought a new component > and it's doing the same thing. But it only does it in X. This setup > worked fine until about a month ago. I'm completely at a loss as to how > to fix this. Here's my search for errors in /etc/Xorg.0.log: > > > carter log # grep EE Xorg.0.log > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [ 42.372] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER > > > Does anyone have any idea of what's going on? It only happens in X; > it's fine until X loads... > -Michael Sullivan-
I read on Google how one user was having trouble getting X to work with her new monitor. Another user suggested renaming xorg.conf (so it no longer existed under that name.) I tried it, and it worked.
