On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 13:54 +0100, Desmond Armstrong wrote: > > Mandriva 2009.1 (spring), Gnome 2.26.1, Video Card Nvidia GForce2 MX400. > > Under Gnome Control Center > Display it shows a large red square with > > 'unknown' in the center. IIR in 2009.0 my monitor, Acer P221W was shown > > as the monitor type. Clicking 'detect monitors' does nothing. Or am I > > just imagining this was the case in the previous release? > > > > Chris > > > > > The problem here is that the monitor is not correctly set The monitor is > 1600 x 1080. > Start Mandriva in safe mode and at the # prompt type drakconf and you > will now have the ability to set the resolution, I suggest low 1024x 768 > and it should now come to life when you boot normally. > I have had problems with Acer monitors not being auto-detected and have > found that they do need to be set up manually. > Using drakconf in safe mode on Mandriva is the best way to get going. > Once you have display you can then use the control centre in the normal way. > Desmond Thanks Desmond, that didn't seem to have any effect as far as detecting the monitor in the command center. It still shows a large red block with 'unknown' in the center. 1024 x 768 was just a bit too large for me. Any other suggestions? Should translucency be turned off or on, or I guess that depends on the video card? Chris -- KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
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