Hey everyone,

I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI Radeon
(64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a command prompt, and
I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no matter what, startx always
brings up a blank screen from which I can't escape. Even the menu button on
the monitor doesn't bring up anything. I have to ctrl-alt-del to restart
the system.

I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at least boots
me back to the command prompt with the following errors:

Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command

Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I can
get a different video card to try.
--
Brett Tyre
Kirkland House Foundation
http://www3.telus.net/public/btyre

> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>
> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I can
> get a different video card to try.

when I've had similar problems its been to poor configuration of X with
regards to the monitor
Case in point I have a 14 inch monitor made by Commodore that will _not_
play nice unless X has been set for a 13 inch monitor (or less)
not that that's going to be much help, but try xf86cfg to see if you cant
bring the specs back a little

--

Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked

Brett Tyre wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI Radeon
> (64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a command prompt, and
> I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no matter what, startx always
> brings up a blank screen from which I can't escape. Even the menu button on
> the monitor doesn't bring up anything. I have to ctrl-alt-del to restart
> the system.
>
> I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at least boots
> me back to the command prompt with the following errors:
>
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>
> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I can
> get a different video card to try.

Hello, if you have this problem it is with your video, also to get out
of the XWindow control backspace. This works. Now this is something I
ran across and you can use this and it should work without a problem.
type at the command prompt, xorgsetup. Let it set your display by it's
self as it will probe your card and display. I have an idea why you have
had some problems, You were trying to get 1024x768 24 bit color. You did
not set your display correctly. Doing this will crash XWindows. The fix
is setting the verticle synch, or virticle refresh to 50-120, this will
give you 1024x768. Or run xorgconf and walk though the steps but the
xorgsetup seems to fix this problem automatically. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestions; I gave this a try. I also set the hsync to
31.0-64.3 (Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz) and I still get the
same result.

It probably doesn't help that I don't have a manual for my monitor and
can't seem to find specs on it. (It is an "Xtreme Professional
Display", I think made by KDS).

BenneJezzerette wrote:
> Brett Tyre wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI
>> Radeon (64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a command
>> prompt, and I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no matter what,
>> startx always brings up a blank screen from which I can't escape.
>> Even the menu button on the monitor doesn't bring up anything. I have
>> to ctrl-alt-del to restart the system.
>>
>> I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at least
>> boots me back to the command prompt with the following errors:
>>
>> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
>> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>>
>> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I
>> can get a different video card to try.
>
>
> Hello, if you have this problem it is with your video, also to get out
> of the XWindow control backspace. This works. Now this is something I
> ran across and you can use this and it should work without a problem.
> type at the command prompt, xorgsetup. Let it set your display by it's
> self as it will probe your card and display. I have an idea why you have
> had some problems, You were trying to get 1024x768 24 bit color. You did
> not set your display correctly. Doing this will crash XWindows. The fix
> is setting the verticle synch, or virticle refresh to 50-120, this will
> give you 1024x768. Or run xorgconf and walk though the steps but the
> xorgsetup seems to fix this problem automatically. Hope this helps.

Correction: the monitor is made by Lite-On, model number is A1770NSL.

Brett Tyre wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions; I gave this a try. I also set the hsync to
> 31.0-64.3 (Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz) and I still get the
> same result.
>
> It probably doesn't help that I don't have a manual for my monitor and
> can't seem to find specs on it. (It is an "Xtreme Professional
> Display", I think made by KDS).
>
> BenneJezzerette wrote:
>
>> Brett Tyre wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI
>>> Radeon (64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a command
>>> prompt, and I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no matter
>>> what, startx always brings up a blank screen from which I can't
>>> escape. Even the menu button on the monitor doesn't bring up
>>> anything. I have to ctrl-alt-del to restart the system.
>>>
>>> I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at least
>>> boots me back to the command prompt with the following errors:
>>>
>>> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
>>> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>>> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>>>
>>> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I
>>> can get a different video card to try.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello, if you have this problem it is with your video, also to get out
>> of the XWindow control backspace. This works. Now this is something I
>> ran across and you can use this and it should work without a problem.
>> type at the command prompt, xorgsetup. Let it set your display by it's
>> self as it will probe your card and display. I have an idea why you
>> have had some problems, You were trying to get 1024x768 24 bit color.
>> You did not set your display correctly. Doing this will crash
>> XWindows. The fix is setting the verticle synch, or virticle refresh
>> to 50-120, this will give you 1024x768. Or run xorgconf and walk
>> though the steps but the xorgsetup seems to fix this problem
>> automatically. Hope this helps.

Brett Tyre wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions; I gave this a try. I also set the hsync to
> 31.0-64.3 (Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz) and I still get the
> same result.
>
> It probably doesn't help that I don't have a manual for my monitor and
> can't seem to find specs on it. (It is an "Xtreme Professional
> Display", I think made by KDS).
>
> BenneJezzerette wrote:
>
>> Brett Tyre wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI
>>> Radeon (64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a command
>>> prompt, and I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no matter
>>> what, startx always brings up a blank screen from which I can't
>>> escape. Even the menu button on the monitor doesn't bring up
>>> anything. I have to ctrl-alt-del to restart the system.
>>>
>>> I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at least
>>> boots me back to the command prompt with the following errors:
>>>
>>> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
>>> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>>> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>>>
>>> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I
>>> can get a different video card to try.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello, if you have this problem it is with your video, also to get out
>> of the XWindow control backspace. This works. Now this is something I
>> ran across and you can use this and it should work without a problem.
>> type at the command prompt, xorgsetup. Let it set your display by it's
>> self as it will probe your card and display. I have an idea why you
>> have had some problems, You were trying to get 1024x768 24 bit color.
>> You did not set your display correctly. Doing this will crash
>> XWindows. The fix is setting the verticle synch, or virticle refresh
>> to 50-120, this will give you 1024x768. Or run xorgconf and walk
>> though the steps but the xorgsetup seems to fix this problem
>> automatically. Hope this helps.

the reason I say this is it happened to me and I hae a Sony
Multiscan15sfII and tried several things to get it to work above 800x600.

Brett Tyre wrote:
> Correction: the monitor is made by Lite-On, model number is A1770NSL.
>
> Brett Tyre wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestions; I gave this a try. I also set the hsync
>> to 31.0-64.3 (Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz) and I still get
>> the same result.
>>
>> It probably doesn't help that I don't have a manual for my monitor and
>> can't seem to find specs on it. (It is an "Xtreme Professional
>> Display", I think made by KDS).
>>
>> BenneJezzerette wrote:
>>
>>> Brett Tyre wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI
>>>> Radeon (64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a
>>>> command prompt, and I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no
>>>> matter what, startx always brings up a blank screen from which I
>>>> can't escape. Even the menu button on the monitor doesn't bring up
>>>> anything. I have to ctrl-alt-del to restart the system.
>>>>
>>>> I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at
>>>> least boots me back to the command prompt with the following errors:
>>>>
>>>> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
>>>> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>>>> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>>>>
>>>> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until
>>>> I can get a different video card to try.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello, if you have this problem it is with your video, also to get
>>> out of the XWindow control backspace. This works. Now this is
>>> something I ran across and you can use this and it should work
>>> without a problem. type at the command prompt, xorgsetup. Let it set
>>> your display by it's self as it will probe your card and display. I
>>> have an idea why you have had some problems, You were trying to get
>>> 1024x768 24 bit color. You did not set your display correctly. Doing
>>> this will crash XWindows. The fix is setting the verticle synch, or
>>> virticle refresh to 50-120, this will give you 1024x768. Or run
>>> xorgconf and walk though the steps but the xorgsetup seems to fix
>>> this problem automatically. Hope this helps.


Then use the 50-120 as thta is pretty generic to all displays for
1280x1024, using the xorgsetup at the command line works to the fullest
your display can do.

On 2005-04-07, Brett Tyre <btyre@telus.net> wrote:
> Correction: the monitor is made by Lite-On, model number is A1770NSL.

Didn't bother to search the web, did you?

horz 30-70KHz
vert 50-120KHz


nb

notbob wrote:
> On 2005-04-07, Brett Tyre <btyre@telus.net> wrote:
>
>>Correction: the monitor is made by Lite-On, model number is A1770NSL.
>
>
> Didn't bother to search the web, did you?
>
> horz 30-70KHz
> vert 50-120KHz
>
>
> nb
no because usually the vert ref or synch is what you need. the other is
set auto.

Yeah, I did Couldn't find that tho.

notbob wrote:
> On 2005-04-07, Brett Tyre <btyre@telus.net> wrote:
>
>>Correction: the monitor is made by Lite-On, model number is A1770NSL.
>
>
> Didn't bother to search the web, did you?
>
> horz 30-70KHz
> vert 50-120KHz
>
>
> nb