monitor issues

quarinteen · 11-23-2005, 08:23 PM

I can not get linux to reconize my monitor, and to go into anything but 800*600 i can not find any drivers for this monitor it is a tatung model number C5M. I am using Fedora 4 if some one could point me in the right direction i would surley appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

emanresu · 11-23-2005, 09:34 PM

you sure it is the monitor? not the graphics card?

quarinteen · 11-23-2005, 10:19 PM

Yeah it sees my graphics card but my monitor comes up as unknown and it wants me to set the hertz for it but i just set it to the safe.

emanresu · 11-23-2005, 11:25 PM

I found the following info from some other linux forum. It is not exactly the same model you are using, but should be close. See if it solves your problem

Code:

Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 305 229
HorizSync 30-50
Identifier "Monitor[1]"
ModelName "C5D"
VendorName "TATUNG"
VertRefresh 50-100
UseModes "Modes[1]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[1]"
Modeline "1024x768" 64.56 1024 1072 1312 1328 768 783 791 807
Modeline "800x600" 55.91 800 840 1040 1120 600 602 614 640
Modeline "640x480" 44.72 640 672 832 896 480 482 494 520
EndSection

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[1]"
EndSection

quarinteen · 11-24-2005, 07:56 PM

before i do this last time i tried to alter the monitor setting and i could not get it to come back on. if it goes out how do i recover the monitor?

emanresu · 11-24-2005, 09:18 PM

you need to kill xdm to supress the GUI. you can do this by editing the GRUB boot line,and add an extra options that says "softlevel=3"

quarinteen · 11-24-2005, 10:05 PM

where do I put the monitor information abouve is there line an ini file or something? How do you boot to the gui from the command prompt? sorry I should have mentioned before i am a compplete Linux newb.

emanresu · 11-27-2005, 01:12 PM

in your boot loader, you should be able to edit the boot command. Just add a space and then "softlevel=3" which will only boot upto runlevel 3. to start gui, once you have logged in as root, run

Code:

/etc/init.d/xdm start

but in your case, you probably need to fix your xorg.conf first before running the GUI.