[SOLVED] Fedora 10 Monitor Problem

[xsiick]

Hi, I had just joined linuxforums.org, even though I should've joined a while ago
since all I did was lurk the forums for help with my problems.

Anyways, I have Fedora 10 running on a Dell Poweredge 1600C (not sure of the gen.)
But it's relativley old.
Service Tag: B3JHF51 if you wanted to know that.

The problem I have:

I was running Fedora 10 on a different box (with the same monitor I'm using now)
and the System>Preferences>Hardware>Screen Resolution said Dell 17"

Now on the Poweredge (with the same monitor) I go there and it says Unknown.
I am unable to change the screen resolution and refresh rate even though it gives me options.

I can't get compiz working either. When I go to System>Preferences>Look and Feel>Desktop Effects
and I enable desktop effects, the screen goes white and all I see is the mouse.
The screen doesn't go back to normal again until the 20ish seconds runs out.

I was wondering if anyone could help me out, I'm willing to answer any questions
about the hardware.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this

su -
lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[xsiick]

[root@jake ~]# lspci | grep -i vga
00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
[root@jake ~]# grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
grep: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

[devils casper]

ATI display card create problems without proprietary driver sometimes and Display is not configured too.
First of all, create xorg.conf file manually.

su -
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Above command will nano editor. Add these contents :

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	30-71
	VertRefresh	50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
EndSection

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.

Reboot machine. If it works fine, I will post instructions for ATI Proprietary driver installation.

[xsiick]

I created the xorg.conf and started up nano.
I saved the xorg.conf once everything was in there (I had copied and pasted it so there couldn't have been an error)

I started the reboot and when I selected Fedora to start up from the bootloader, the blue bar at the bottom loads up.
Once it finished loading it went to a screen that prints what you type, with a white underscore.
It seems like this is what normally starts up but it doesn't get stuck in this spot.

So yes, it's stuck booting up.
It's at this screen right now, I'm not sure what to do now.

[devils casper]

Press Alt+Ctrl+F1. It will switch to tty1. Log in as Regular user and execute startx command. Post exact error message here, if any.

[xsiick]

X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.e15 i686
Current Operating System: Linux jake.xsiick 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686
Mon Feb 23 13:21:22 EST 2009 i686
Build Date: 10 March 2009 07:20:48PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-15.fc10
Before reporting problems, check X.Org Wiki - Home
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 14 14:12:45 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) VESA(0): No matching modes
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

[devils casper]

Graphics card is not working properly with vesa driver.
Replace "vesa" with "radeon" in xorg.conf file.

[xsiick]

I ran it again, used startx
and got nearly the same error message
except a few lines different

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 14 14:29:21 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

[xsiick]

I have fixed this issue!
Thank you so much for the help, devils casper!
You were extremely helpful.

I ran Xorg -configure
WITHOUT a gui running.
then I did
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and it's all working great.

That works!