Charles MacDonald wrote: > Well William, you are a least giving me some hints.. > It does look like I have intel made intel video > > cmacd@core2blk:~$ lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM > Controller (rev 10) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express > > xorg.conf is also a bit vague > > ..... > # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously > # in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings > # here are ignored. > # > .... > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > Device "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap" "True" > EndSection > This is the stock xorg file for the new versions of xorg which attempt to self-configure. Xorg will determine the video resolution by querying the monitor and then attempting to use its prefered resolution. If, as you say, you are using an older monitor, it is possible that it is reporting the wrong resolution, or failing to report any resolution at all. You might want to check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for something that looks like the following. If there is nothing like it, or it reports strange values, this could be the source of your problems, in which case you may need to manually tune your xorg.conf. Michael (II) CHROME(1): EDID Version: 1.3 (II) CHROME(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V (II) CHROME(0): Sync: Separate (II) CHROME(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34 vert.: 27 (II) CHROME(0): Gamma: 2.20 (II) CHROME(0): DPMS capabilities: Off; RGB/Color Display (II) CHROME(0): Default color space is primary color space (II) CHROME(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode (II) CHROME(0): redX: 0.637 redY: 0.344 greenX: 0.310 greenY: 0.582 (II) CHROME(0): blueX: 0.143 blueY: 0.100 whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329 (II) CHROME(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) CHROME(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) CHROME(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) CHROME(0): 640x480@67Hz (II) CHROME(0): 640x480@72Hz (II) CHROME(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) CHROME(0): 800x600@56Hz (II) CHROME(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) CHROME(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) CHROME(0): 800x600@75Hz (II) CHROME(0): 832x624@75Hz (II) CHROME(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) CHROME(0): 1024x768@70Hz (II) CHROME(0): 1024x768@75Hz (II) CHROME(0): 1280x1024@75Hz (II) CHROME(0): 1152x870@75Hz (II) CHROME(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0 (II) CHROME(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) CHROME(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897 (II) CHROME(0): #1: hsize: 1280 vsize 960 refresh: 60 vid: 16513 (II) CHROME(0): #2: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337 (II) CHROME(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) CHROME(0): clock: 108.0 MHz Image Size: 338 x 270 mm (II) CHROME(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1328 h_sync_end 1440 h_blank_end 1688 h_border: 0 (II) CHROME(0): v_active: 1024 v_sync: 1025 v_sync_end 1028 v_blanking: 1066 v_border: 0 (II) CHROME(0): NU GLOBAL (II) CHROME(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 80 kHz, PixClock max 140 MHz (II) CHROME(0): Monitor name: QL711V (II) CHROME(0): EDID (in hex): (II) CHROME(0): 00ffffffffffff003aa70171b9000000 (II) CHROME(0): 2d0e010308221b782e04a5a3584f9524 (II) CHROME(0): 195054bfef8081808140714f01010101 (II) CHROME(0): 010101010101302a009851002a403070 (II) CHROME(0): 1300520e1100001e000000fe004e5520 (II) CHROME(0): 474c4f42414c0a202020000000fd0032 (II) CHROME(0): 4b1e500e000a202020202020000000fc (II) CHROME(0): 00514c373131560a20202020202000d0 (II) CHROME(0): EDID vendor "NUG", prod id 28929 (II) CHROME(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync (II) CHROME(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh (II) CHROME(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 30.24 640 704 768 864 480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.1 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0 57.28 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 50.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x59.9 109.00 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync (63.7 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1280x960"x59.9 101.25 1280 1360 1488 1696 960 963 967 996 -hsync +vsync (59.7 kHz) (II) CHROME(0): Modeline "1152x864"x74.8 104.00 1152 1224 1344 1536 864 867 871 905 -hsync +vsync (67.7 kHz)