Monitor Out of Range

[bigpappajohn1984]

Okay I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu and I am a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu. It installed fine on one desktop, no errors or issues or anything like that, but I am trying to install it on a second desktop and the install went fine, it boots normal, but right before it will load Ubuntu the screen goes black and the monitor says "Out of Range 74.7k 60Hz" and I have no idea how to fix it. Pressing ctrl alt and backspace will take me to the command line, but I don't know what series of commands to enter to fix it. Please Help!

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

xorg.conf is not configured correctly.

Press Alt+Ctrl+F2 and log in there. Execute this

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It will open xorg.conf file in nano editor.
Delete all its contents and paste this :

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 71.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.
Execute this to reboot machine

sudo shutdown -r now

[bigpappajohn1984]

Okay so I followed those instructions and now it boots into grub and it says

Starting up ....
[534.353568] pnp: PnPACPI: METHOD_NAME_CRS failure for PNP0401
[534.386154] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6 :10000@fa000000 for 0000:01:05.0
Loading, please wait.....
kinit: Name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda5) = hda5(3,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda5
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot

Ubuntu 7.10
ubuntu login:

[MikeTbob]

Okay so I followed those instructions and now it boots into grub and it says

Starting up ....
[534.353568] pnp: PnPACPI: METHOD_NAME_CRS failure for PNP0401
[534.386154] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6 :10000@fa000000 for 0000:01:05.0
Loading, please wait.....
kinit: Name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda5) = hda5(3,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda5
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot

Ubuntu 7.10
ubuntu login:

Okay now!
I don't think this error is related to the change you made within your xorg.conf file. I think you might have a problem with ACPI, which is Power save and Suspend. This is what I'd try.....disable ACPI and see if the message goes away.

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add this line to the end of your kernel line, so it looks like this.

kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sda1 acpi=off

Keep in mind, yours won't look exactly like mine but it will be similar, you just want to add the acpi=off to the end of it. If you don't feel safe doing this, then just post your entire /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and we can do it for you.

[bigpappajohn1984]

Title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
Root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4b025ebd-e4f4-4204-8e$
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic


title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4b025ebd-e4f4-4204-8e$
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic


title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet


I added acpi=off after all of the kernal lines and I am still getting this message

Starting up......
[534.386154] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6 :10000@fa000000 for 0000:01:05.0
Loading, please wait.....
kinit: Name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda5) = hda5(3,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda5
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot

Ubuntu 7.10
ubuntu login:

[MikeTbob]

Did you reboot the machine?

[bigpappajohn1984]

yes, i ran the command:

sudo shutdown -r now

[devils casper]

Post the output of this

sudo fdisk -l

Its small L in fdisk -l.

[bigpappajohn1984]

Results of sudo fdisk -l


disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ac6e5

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4772 38331058+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4773 4865 747022+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4773 4865 746991 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[devils casper]

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file again.
Replace UUID with device name assigned to root partition.

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=/dev/hda1  acpi=off
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

Save file and reboot machine.