[ale] problem with x-windows

[Nick Lucent]

It sounds like your monitor is being given invalid refresh rates and is
going into (suspend?/idle?/shutdown?), It happened to me a couple times on
a mitsubishi, try editing the refresh rates, that should do it.

Nick

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Martin Nichols wrote:

>     Hi, Iam having trouble configuring my x windows to work using red
> hat 5.2
> at first it would not pick up the on board video that was built in, i
> then installed my trident 9685 card and linux picked it up right a way.
> i entered my monitor type a sony multiscan 15sx which was a choice under
> the svga server which the auto probe said i needed when i type startx
> the screen goes black and the green light on the monitor goes to yellow
> like in sleep mode and does not come back i have to reboot to get back
> to the login.
> 
> any suggestions? any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thank you, marty
>