I have a problem where i run "startx" command and the screen goes blank.

I have a radeon 9800se graphics card (But i want to use the default linux drivers)

and a 15" monitor

I selected 1024 * 768 (Which i know is a bit big for the monitor)

I tried the CTRL ALT (+/-) trick while the screen was blank.

I used the Huge26.s kernal.

What is wrong with this bloody monitor?

Perhaps it is the refresh rates, how do i check?

I tried to run "/usr/X11R6/bin/xorgconfig" at the command line, that came up with:

"This program will create a basic xorg.conf file, based on....." , now should i create this and enter the details?

cheers, rotty

have you run xorgconfig? If not, you should google your monitor to try to find out it's proper refresh rates. then run that program.(The rates may also be found in the manual for your monitor )

For example, I googled `xorg.conf Philips +109b" and found several examples of etc/X11/xorg.conf with
in the Monitor section. these settings work for me.

Ok, so when it asks me to create that file, just continue? I don't want to create more problems (-:


cheers, rotty

That sould work. if you're root, it will automatically put the file in the right place, if not xorgconfig will put the file in your home dir ( it think ) and you'll have to move it to /etc/X11

so do i edit : etc/X11/xorg.conf
or : /usr/X11R6/bin/xorgconfig

which file?

cheers, rotty

/etc/X11/xorg.conf


xorgsetup as root will usually detect all your settings and put it in thise file for you but sometimes you have to make little changes

I did a google search for our "samsung syncmaster 550s" monitor, also used the same syntax you did but i did not find anything useful as to the configuration.

Ok i found that the horizontal frequancy support and the vertical are 30 to 61 Hz and 1,024 x 768 resolution i gather i should just set this?

cheers, rotty

You will find the horz and vertical rates in the manual of the monitor. Usually xorgsetup detects this stuff if the monitor is newer then like 4 or 5 years

This is a monitor picked up cheap (They would have been disposed of otherwise, for test purposes. never really got a manual.

cheers, rotty

Well i tried the +/- trick, i set the refresh rate. I also noticed that when i press Ctrl - alt - Backspace the screen flickers with the logon then goes back to the command line screen. Also when i entered "kdm" the screen would flicker with the logon window when entering and exciting the KDE mode.

I have no idea what is going on.

Thanks for all the help this forum has given me!!!

cheers, rotty

i did not run "xorgconfig", this should fix the problem. I got confused with people mentioning both files, i was not sure what i was meant to do.

I will try this.

cheers, rotty

Hi,

I would suggest that you read some reference. Check my sig!

For your X setup go here.

Yep run xorgconfig as root and over-write any mistakes you've made. xorgconfig will ask you a series of questions, once you're done then startx should work.

You could also try the command #xorgsetup, which will set-up your xorgconfig file automatically for you. I prefer xorgconfig as xorgsetup is not as accurate, for me anyway:-)

Ok well i ran xorgconfig and got this error in the log file.

I had the screen were it shows black and white vertical lines and the screen was not really visible but you can see the outline of the prompts that came up (No idea what they said).

I tried xorgconfig again and now get the following no matter what settings i tell it.

"Fatal server error: no screen found"

"XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining."

I found the user guide for the monitor:

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...33_550S_EN.pdf

This whole process with slackware has already been very time consuming and is looking to stay that way, should i consider SUSE instead, it is meant to be easier and more automated.

cheers, rotty