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Topic: LCD Monitor won't display gui, At least i think it's the lcd's fault

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SuperLou

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Posted: June 01 2005,21:54

So i had a new lcd monitor, and i was like, it would be really cool to use DSL on this shiny new monitor. Grub starts dsl booting nicely, but when DSL starts to load the gui (startx stuff i think) the monitor goes black and says no signal. If i boot into command line with dsl 2 and try startx i get the following error message after going black then returning to prompt:

Using X resolution from previously selected or deault settings. If you want to change the resolution, run 'xsetup.sh" (I have tried this)
xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "//.xinitrc" in PATH
Specify a program on the command line or make sure tha /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path
Waiting for X server to shutdown

If you have any ideas i would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Louis

ke4nt1

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Posted: June 01 2005,22:14

The root account isn't setup by default to go into X.
The error message is typical, I believe,
of running startx from runmode 2 as root.

DSL doesn't really do any monitor detection..

Was it working OK with a CRT before?

My LCD works great at all resolutions provided by XVesa.

Are you using XFree ? or Xfbdev ?

Once you get to the portion of video black,
hit ctrl-alt-f1 to get to your other VT, and then
hit crtl-c to break out of the xserver attempt.
Then run xsetup.sh as user DSL, and try some other settings.

73
ke4nt

SuperLou

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Posted: June 01 2005,23:28

Thanks, i got it to load using 800x600 xvesa. Anything higher makes it and the lcd says no signal (or not compatible on the highest).

Do you know of any way I can add drivers or something to improve it?

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