Hi all - Thanks to a good tax return this year, I finally have my first new system in about 4 years. Hooray! 8)
It's a Dell XPS 400 with a Pentium D 820 which is a nice step up from my PIII 866. 8) In any case, I'm having a couple of issues that I was hoping you folks might be able to help me with. I've installed Ubuntu, which didn't go as smoothly as I'm used to. I guess I've been pretty spoiled by using slightly older hardware in that I've always had Ubuntu just auto detect everything and work without problem. Not so with this system. The first issue that came up was that the kernel driver for the NIC was a bit out of date so I had to copy the newest driver via cdr, compile and install. But hey, it worked so I'm not going to complain. Here's the first problem I've hit that I haven't been able to solve. The shiny new system also came with a shiny new monitor - a Dell 2001FP which has DVI (as well as regular VGA) input. The video card is a 256MB NVIDIA GEFORCE 6800, which has both DVI and regular VGA output. "Cool!" I think. "I've never done DVI before - I hope it 'just works'!". I plug in the DVI cable, ran it to the monitor, fired up Ubuntu ... no problem. It "just worked". Very nice, and very crisp. Then again, my previous monitor was a 20" HP that was about 15 years old. Just about *anything* would look crisp after that. 8) Here's where the problem comes in. I got home last night, turned on the monitor ... and waited. No sync. Hmmm. Move the mouse, hit some keys on the keyboard. No sync. That's weird. I could ping it, I could ssh into it - no problem. But I couldn't get it to sync. It took an actual power cycle (just soft rebooting didn't do the trick) to get it to come back up. I was hoping that this was just a fluke of some sort, but when I got up this morning and checked on it, I ran into the same problem. Any thoughts? -- Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
