Widescreen monitor and KHz, Hz

[robotball]

I hope someone can help me. I purchased a new monitor, widescreen, and tried to configue it with my SUSE 10.1 machine. I did not understand what I was doing, so I never did get it right. My machine started acted strange which is a another problem, so I descided to just reinstall from scratch. The install configured my monitor for 1920x1200. When it tried to boot my monitor flased a message that it needed to be 1920x1200 @ 60Hz. From searching here I was able to change the xorg.conf file manually after doing the Ctl-Alt-F1 procedure. I changed the VertRefresh to 60. Rebooted and then I got a fuzzy, chopped, offcolor, shaky, not centered picture. I checked my manual and it says

Horizontal scan range 30 kHz to 81 kHz (automatic)
Vertical scan range 56 Hz to 76 Hz, exception 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz only

It also said in a table:

Display Mode Horiz Freq (kHz) Vert Freq (Hz) Pixel Clock (MHz) Sync
VESA, 1920 x 1200 74.0 60.0 154.0 +/-


So I changed Horiz to 74. Now I get what appears to be like an old DOS window appear stating that you have no valid modes, would you like to see the X server log. The X server will not start. Please correct your configuration. Can anyone help me? I am at an end. Thanks.

[gogalthorp]

I hope someone can help me. I purchased a new monitor, widescreen, and tried to configue it with my SUSE 10.1 machine. I did not understand what I was doing, so I never did get it right. My machine started acted strange which is a another problem, so I descided to just reinstall from scratch. The install configured my monitor for 1920x1200. When it tried to boot my monitor flased a message that it needed to be 1920x1200 @ 60Hz. From searching here I was able to change the xorg.conf file manually after doing the Ctl-Alt-F1 procedure. I changed the VertRefresh to 60. Rebooted and then I got a fuzzy, chopped, offcolor, shaky, not centered picture. I checked my manual and it says

Horizontal scan range 30 kHz to 81 kHz (automatic)
Vertical scan range 56 Hz to 76 Hz, exception 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz only

It also said in a table:

Display Mode Horiz Freq (kHz) Vert Freq (Hz) Pixel Clock (MHz) Sync
VESA, 1920 x 1200 74.0 60.0 154.0 +/-


So I changed Horiz to 74. Now I get what appears to be like an old DOS window appear stating that you have no valid modes, would you like to see the X server log. The X server will not start. Please correct your configuration. Can anyone help me? I am at an end. Thanks.

Does your graphics card support that resolution?? Some older ones may not.

[devils casper]

So I changed Horiz to 74. Now I get what appears to be like an old DOS window appear stating that you have no valid modes, would you like to see the X server log. The X server will not start. Please correct your configuration. Can anyone help me? I am at an end. Thanks.

check Supported HorizSync and VertiRefresh rates in Monitor's Manual and edit xorg.conf file accordingly.




Casper