Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/06/2011 01:56 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: Hi Kevin, your help worked! Just glad I could help out. I still do not understand the ins and outs of a monitor, but the following xorg.conf worked. The System-Preferences-Monitor tool now offers a reasonable selection of resolution,

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hi Kevin, learning a bit more than I bargained for when I thought all I had ahead of me was a simple upgrade ;) On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 02/03/2011 09:09 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: Ok, here again: lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hi Kevin, the xorg.conf file from my last email causes the boot sequence to hang after starting atd, probably while starting X. I resorted to my install cd and rescue mode to rename that xorg.conf file to get back to my previous state. - Side question: There must be a way to boot into text mode

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/04/2011 10:47 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: Hi Kevin, learning a bit more than I bargained for when I thought all I had ahead of me was a simple upgrade ;) B^) Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameLCD Panel 1280x800

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/04/2011 11:26 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: Hi Kevin, the xorg.conf file from my last email causes the boot sequence to hang after starting atd, probably while starting X. I resorted to my install cd and rescue mode to rename that xorg.conf file to get back to my previous state. Our

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-03 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: My apologies Burkhard,  I confused your email with another I am also helping out with.  Please ignore the response I just posted and let me try again.  Thank-you. [...] Well, to begin with you are using the

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-03 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/03/2011 09:09 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: Ok, here again: lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter And attached the Xorg.0.log file after I renamed xorg.conf and rebooted. Hope

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400,  Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Fellow Users, after installing F14, the monitor

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/01/2011 05:25 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Fellow Users, after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600,

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/2011 10:10 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, Burkhard

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 02/01/2011 05:25 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400,  Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/02/2011 08:30 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: xorg.conf exists now. Contains Actually, I was hoping to see the output from Xorg.0.log without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It would show us what the *system* thinks it was doing and whether or not it chose a sane driver for the video card.

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
My apologies Burkhard, I confused your email with another I am also helping out with. Please ignore the response I just posted and let me try again. Thank-you. On 02/02/2011 08:30 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: Xorg.0.log is long. Rather than attaching the whole thing, let me try to select what

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400, Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Fellow Users, after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There must be some interface (or driver?) problem, since Preferences-Monitor

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-01 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400,  Burkhard Plache burkhardpla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Fellow Users, after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600, whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There