"Out of scan range"

[mike shlitz]

Thanks Ben!

Mission accomplished!

Mike

--- Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/24/06, mike shlitz <mshlitz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The issue I have, is that the monitor I
> > have available here is older, and when RH boots, I
> get
> > the msg. "Out of Scan Range".
> 
>   That typically means the vertical refresh rate
> (measured in Hz) of
> the signal being generated at the computer is too
> fast for the
> monitor.
> 
> > What would be the most sensible way to go about
> > changing the monitor settings?  ... Is it possible
> to
> > boot into a "safe" mode in order to change the
> > settings via the desktop?
> 
>   What you'll want to do is boot into runlevel 3. 
> Runlevel 5 (the
> default on Red Hat, most of the time) goes directly
> into X and the GUI
> login.  Runlevel 3 starts all the same services, but
> stays at the
> text-mode login on the console.
> 
>   To specify the boot runlevel, add it to kernel
> boot parameters. 
> You're most likely using GRUB.  When the system
> first boots (after
> BIOS init and POST), you should get a boot menu. 
> (It may timeout
> after a few seconds, so be ready.)  Hit the [A] key
> to append boot
> parameters.  Type a space (to separate from the
> previous parameters)
> and then a "3" (a bare digit three).  Hit [ENTER] to
> accept the
> parameters and boot into runlevel 3.
> 
>   Once you've got a usable console, you can run the
> X configuration
> utility, and specify that your monitor doesn't
> support the higher
> refresh rates.  If needed, pick a generic monitor
> type and limit it to
> 60 Hz.
> 
>   The command you run to configure X can vary on
> different releases of
> Red Hat.  What release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> are you running?
> 
> -- Ben
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