jameswong Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I install Mandrake 10.1 over my previous 9.0. The fonts display were very small and flickered a lot. My monitor gave out a message saying "out of range" - which I think it meant out of sync. However everying seems to be fine when X start. I do not have this problem when using 9.0. I am using a Flat Panel Monitor. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Switch to a terminal screen (ctrl-alt-backspace) and type XFdrake as root. Adjust the setting to fit your monitor). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I found that when I switched to Xorg with 10.1 I had to play with my settings a bit to get my monitor working. Specifically my color depth went from 24 to 16. I don't know why but it works now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameswong Posted December 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 This is something I do not understand. I think when mandrake bootup it use normal "VGA" mode and only use the X11 config after Xstart command is issued, which is usually at the end of the boot process Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 You're right, it uses what is known as the 'framebuffer' to have some graphics at boot. In some cases the fbdev (framebuffer device) may try to give a signal at too high a frequency, tft panels have a limit at 60Hz, whereas with crt displays that tends to flicker too much, so trying 70 or 75 herz is often better. I have no clue as to why this doesn't work, but in any case, you could set up your bootloader to pass an argument to not have this problem, so you can read the bootmessages. Don't know which setting though; check in the mcc, bootloader, video options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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