[SLL] X server set up Wrong Horizontal ViewSonic VA720

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.com
Wed Oct 24 15:47:50 PDT 2007


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007, Chuck Kranz wrote:
>Hello all,
>I've been setting up a Fedora 7 64 bit box with a ViewSonic VA720 
>monitor. I used the system-config-display and made the mistake of 
>changing from the generic 1280 X 1024 to the actual ViewSonic display.
>It now is stuck with a horizontal speed that is out of range for the 
>monitor(90Hz). Does anyone know how to clear this out so I can start 
>again with system-config-display? Or better yet, has anyone got this to 
>work?

Hit ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to a text login.  Log in as root, go to
init state 3 ``init 3'', then run system-config-display.  When
you're done, run ``init 5'' or reboot for graphics mode.

Bill
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