[Techtalk] Re: X problems after installing an adaptec 29160 SCSI card (PCI)

[Lucky Lady]

Hi all,

Thank you to both Erin & Alvin for their suggestions.
Erin, my vertical & horizontal refresh rates were
correct, so that was not the problem. Alvin, my NIC
card was between the AGP video card & the PCI SCSI
card (which was in the last slot), so I can not move
the SCSI card any further away. I ended up replacing
the AGP video card with a PCI one & X works fine.

DaLy


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> Message: 2
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] X problems after installing
> an adaptec 29160 SCSI
> 	card (PCI)
> From: Erinn <erinn at double-helix.org>
> To: Lucky Lady <needlesschatter at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "techtalk at linuxchix.org"
> <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Organization: 
> Date: 20 Jan 2003 14:15:27 -0500
> 
> 
> > When I access X (i.e. startx) the screen has an
> awful
> > horizontal line pattern. Since I am using Red Hat
> 8.0
> > now, I tried to re-configure X via:
> > redhat-config-xfree86. The first message I see is
> > "Couldn't start X-server, trying with a fresh
> > configuration". About 30 seconds pass & the screen
> > freezes with the awful horizontal line pattern I
> > mentioned above. Any suggestions?  
> 
> I had a similar problem with Debian and it turned
> out that all I needed
> to fix was my Horizontal Sync and Vertical Refresh
> rates. This could be
> completely wrong, but check your
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and try to
> find your monitors vert/horizontal rates online just
> to make sure. Other
> than that, I have no clue, but probably someone else
> will have some
> other suggestions.
> 
> Erinn


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