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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:06:26 +1000

Re: MONITOR (Card) Problems

At 20:22 2/01/00 +1030, you wrote:
>1) A monitor which claims it will do 72 hsync and 110 vsync
>
>2) A Vide Excel i740 AGP card

<snip>
Interesting.  I have a problem which might be related.
The upgraded RH6.0/Gnome from the Linux Pocketbook installed easily on my
ExtendedSVGA monitor and Diamond Stealth 2000 Pro.  I was later able to
upgrade to RH6.1 (thanks, Geoffrey) with delightful effect.

On my other computer, with a similar monitor and i740AGP, the Pocketbook
edition simply would not install X even though it correctly probed for the
i740 card.  I simply could not find a monitor or monitor settings the
install would accept.
The RH6.1/Gnome installed without a hitch, but unfortunately without the
hybridised KDE I have on the other install.

So, is it i740 or monitor settings which are at issue here?
Brian

Brian Astill,  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education