Re: monitor 'out of scan range'

Josef Lowder said:
>
> I just purchased a new Sony 19" flat panel and when I connected it to
> my two current Linux systems that are wired through an electronic
> switch, without making any other changes, it works fine on one system,
> but not on the other.
>
> My newest system (with which the new monitor works) has Mepis Linux and
> Xandros Linux loaded (I am going to install Mandrake 10.1 Official next)
> and the new monitor works fine with both Mepix and Xandros without
> doing anything except plug in the new monitor. Didn't even have to
> reboot.
>
> My other system has Mandrake 8.1 and when I switch to it, it displays
> the following message on the default F7 terminal.
>

>     Out of scan range
>     80.x kHz / 100 hz

>
> I can switch to any of the F1-F6 terminals and the monitor works fine
> in console mode, but it just won't work in the KDE gui mode.
>
> What does this "out of scan range" message mean and what can
> I do to get the monitor to work on the Mandrake 8.1 KDE system?
>
> When I looked through the various Mandrake 8.1 KDE system control and
> configuration options, I came across something called SysV-Init Editor
> which makes reference to 'suid' and 'sgid' but I don't know if any of
> these things have anything to do with setting whatever "scan range" I
> need.
>
> Both systems have the same video cards - S3 Inc 86C368 Trio3D/2X

I would guess that the "out of scan range" message indicates that the
video card is producing sync rates that the LCD monitor cannot handle. I
assume that the two boxes used to have different monitors, right? So one
was configured differently than the other even though they are the same
cards.

The key to fixing your problem is configuring X to use scan rates that
match the capabilities of this new monitor. I am not very knowledgable in
doing that mannually since the automatic configuration tools have always
worked for me on all my monitors (so far). Mandrake should have some sort
of X configuration tool or use the 'XF86Setup' script that comes in X.
Google it for more instructions since I am not much help with it.

Alan



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