[XFree86] Sony SDM-M81 No DVI DIGITAL output on flat panel

[Michael Mangus]

I have tried installing Red Hat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.1.   During the Video/Monitor detection portion of the distributions:   Detected Generic NVidia Gefore 3 (PNY 64MB DVI Geforce 3)   Monitor:  Not detected.   Tried all the generic and some other monitor settings but my monitor would just have an out of sync error.  The ones that did not give an out of sync error would say no input and would keep a black screen.  When the monitor would sync it would just create a furry of scans/lines across the screen.   I tried inputting the custom monitor settings for the horizontal and vertical settings but it would do the same as any other setting.     Monitor:  Sony SDM-M81 DVI LCD 18.1”     Monitor Manual shows: Horizontal frequency:  28-92kHz Vertical frequency:  48-85Hz   Preset Mode timing table   No Resolution   Horiz        Vert       Graphics Mode   1) 640x480    31.5kHz       60Hz    VGA-G 2) 640x480    35.0kHz       67Hz     Macintosh 13” Color   3) 720x400    31.5kHz       70Hz    VGA-Text 4) 800x600    37.9kHz       60Hz    VESA 5) 832x624    49.7kHz       75Hz    Macintosh 16” Color   6) 1024x768  48.4kHz       60Hz    VESA 7) 1024x768  60.2kHz       75Hz    Macintosh 19” Color   8) 1152x870  68.7kHz       75Hz    Macintosh 9) 1280x960  60.0kHz       60Hz    VESA 10)1280x960 64.0kHz       60Hz    VESA     Could somebody direct me in the right direction or explain what I need to do to get my monitor to work when installing one of the two distributions?   Thank you for your time.     Michael