Monitor issues

[stevestyle51]

I brought my linux box home from college and i planned on using one of the older monitors i had saved. The problem is that whenever i boot up in linux, after the text display boot process the monitor goes absolutely crazy when xwindows starts up. So the monitor acts fine through the text and boot process, and it works perfectly when i run windows XP (on the same box). I'm sure that it is just a driver error or something like that but I am not sure how to fix it. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this problem i would appreciate it.

[Vergil83]

edit your

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

or

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

to make sure the sync rates are correct for your monitor. Here are mine for example

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "OEC:0477"
        HorizSync       31-69
        VertRefresh     59-86
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection