brent timothy saner on 19 Mar 2009 12:19:08 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] startx screwed up- rhel5- hp tft5600 kvm


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Ron Kaye wrote:
> 
> never had to troubleshoot x
> dont know squat
> 
> rhel 5 on hp dl360,connected to an hp tft5600 kvm
> 
> at the command line, startx
> 
> i get a graphic upper left, settings out of range,
> gui comes up, just cant read anything.
> 
> i am guessing, there is an x11 conf file which i can edit to fix the
> problem?
> am i correct?
> 
> figure a generic 1024x768 , 60MHz setting should suffice.
> 
> i know the philly guys will know
> 
> ron
>

start with /etc/X11/xorg.conf

it may be trying to use the wrong driver perhaps, from the sounds of it
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