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Posted: Dec. 02 2005,02:16 QUOTE
Just like the description says, really. Burned the ISO onto a CD and it starts up alright, but when I press ENTER in order to boot the monitor gives me a 'Out of Range' reading. What can I do to fix this? The monitor is an Acer AL1501 flattie.
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Posted: Dec. 02 2005,05:22 QUOTE
Aye, well I worked out what it was, but I still have a problem. When I boot, I type 'dsl vga=normal' and that works and prompts me through the display choices. Awesome. Except that at 1024x768 it still conks out. The highest my shiny new monitor can get is 800x600x32. Gah.
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Posted: Dec. 13 2005,10:32 QUOTE
Perhaps I could bump this. I am a Linux newbie, so I wouldn't mind some guidance, dudes. Surely someone must know something...
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Posted: Dec. 13 2005,16:40 QUOTE
LCD screens usually need one of the fb settings, so start with: fb1024x768 dsl norestore. "Shiny and new" is not always a good thing with Linux because all the drivers for a particular piece of hardware may still be in development. I don't know if that's the case with your monitor, but you might google it to see if it's a supported monitor. Also, you have two choices of X drivers to use. Try each of them, but don't go outside the range of what your monitor will support with resolution settings. Check the monitor's specs to see what the manufacturer's optimal settings are. My LCDs, for example, will work best at 1280x1024x32bits and 70hz. If I use 60hz, which many LCDs prefer, then the image gets fuzzy looking in the middle.

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Posted: Dec. 13 2005,18:14 QUOTE
Either choose to run your system at 800x600, IE: boot with

fb800x600

on a blank line at the BOOT prompt, or install XFree86 and see if you can play around with the monitor timings in your XF86Config-4 file
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