horizontal res stops boot up
 

Hello,

First of all, let me explain my set up. I have Red Hat 8.0, Slack 9.1 and Win98 all running on the same PC. My bootloader is GRUB, which boots direcrly to Red Hat and Windoze, and boots to LILO to load Slack. For Christmas, I got an HP vs17e flat panel monitor. Installing it opened up issues in both Red Hat 8.0 and Slack 9.1. When I started Red Hat, the GNOME log-in window came up and the monitor informed me that I needed to readjust the horizontal freqyency settings. After displaying this message for a few seconds, the monitor entered sleep mode. I ran x86config and now all is well. Slackware is another story. It will not boot-up on its own from LILO. It starts to, then the screen goes blank and the monitor gives the error message telling me to reset my screen resolution and the system halts. I can boot using a CD-ROM without incident and have done so and reconfigured X. Now that I reflect on the problem, it seems to be a LILO issue. Could this be? What can I do about it? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

What did you reconfigure? After the changes, were you able to use 'startx' from the command line and use the GUI?
This sounds more like a VESA framebuffer issue than the X server. I suspect you have the VESA framebuffer set to something other than "vga = normal" in /etc/lilo.conf. I suggest you boot to a command line, edit your /etc/lilo.conf to reflect "vga = normal", run 'lilo' command so the changes are made, then reboot.

Hello bsdunix,

When I reconfigured X, I reconfigured everything... AGP card, mouse, monitor,etc. That is all a moot point now, because I followed your suggestion and reset vga uder VESA to "vga=normal." For some reason it was set to "vga=271"?!? Anyway after following through with your suggestion, Slack now boots properly. Thank you much. I love this site.