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Article #3972BLACK SCREENS!
From: Brett
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:00
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I figured out why some video cards have black screens with x! You are dual booting winblowz and have your refresh set to a high rate in winblowz! Like 1024x768@85Hz will make Xwindows black out unless you have a specific monitor. I tested this with a Matrox Card also on a different comp and sure enough! It blacked out until I switched back to a lower refresh in windows. If this isn`t the case with your comp, please let me know and I may be able to help you out (not sure how, but I'll try ;P ) also, if your NOT using windoze, try and find some utilities for your card on the internet (those that have to do with your video card's refresh rate). Set the refresh rate lower. This works on my two computers (one with ATI ALL IN WONDER PRO AND also a MATROX MYSTIQUE. ALSO! try using XF86Setup instead of setup or XF86Config as it has a little more to it than the others. Goto the maker's website of your monitor and get the exact specs of your monitor(Minimum and maximum HSync and Vsync) and input those in the monitor section of XF86Setup.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,eb79764bf7890075,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: "Brett" <frikafrag@seatac.net> Subject: BLACK SCREENS! Date: 1998/12/26 Message-ID: <Aw3h2.2782$wx1.12541@news6.ispnews.com> X-Deja-AN: 425896100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Trace: news6.ispnews.com 914670752 208.227.204.149 (Sat, 26 Dec 1998 06:12:32 EDT) Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 06:12:32 EDT Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux