hosungs
April 30th, 2010, 03:28 PM
Greetings. Thanks for all your hard work on Ubuntu.
I tried installing 10.04 Desktop on my old desktop (with Soyo SY-RC350 motherboard) with an old Samsung CRT monitor (Samtron 76DF), and it kept showing "Sync. - out of range" monitor problem, so I tried 10.04 alternate CD, and it went fine on the text interface. I believe I chose the normal installation with the alternate CD. Now when I boot the machine, it shows the GRUB screen fine, but after I choose Ubuntu from the GRUB loader, it shows "Sync. - out of range" monitor message again, and I COULDN'T EVEN GET THE CONSOLE LOGIN PROMPT USING CTRL-ALT-F1!!! It's very weird, so I tried my LCD HDTV (with a VGA input) as the machine's monitor, and there I could see the GDM login screen (even though quite flickering), and could get the console login prompt using CTRL-ALT-F1. So, it definitely seems not a problem with the graphics card, but a problem with the monitor. But I think it's still very weird. How come even the console login is not possible??? Right now, I could log on to the machine through ssh (installed openssh-server while I tried with my LCD HDTV), so I'll try the various suggestions about X display issues (the machine's in my home and I'm at work right now), but I'm wondering if anyone has seen this kind of phenomenon? And any ideas?
Thanks.
I tried installing 10.04 Desktop on my old desktop (with Soyo SY-RC350 motherboard) with an old Samsung CRT monitor (Samtron 76DF), and it kept showing "Sync. - out of range" monitor problem, so I tried 10.04 alternate CD, and it went fine on the text interface. I believe I chose the normal installation with the alternate CD. Now when I boot the machine, it shows the GRUB screen fine, but after I choose Ubuntu from the GRUB loader, it shows "Sync. - out of range" monitor message again, and I COULDN'T EVEN GET THE CONSOLE LOGIN PROMPT USING CTRL-ALT-F1!!! It's very weird, so I tried my LCD HDTV (with a VGA input) as the machine's monitor, and there I could see the GDM login screen (even though quite flickering), and could get the console login prompt using CTRL-ALT-F1. So, it definitely seems not a problem with the graphics card, but a problem with the monitor. But I think it's still very weird. How come even the console login is not possible??? Right now, I could log on to the machine through ssh (installed openssh-server while I tried with my LCD HDTV), so I'll try the various suggestions about X display issues (the machine's in my home and I'm at work right now), but I'm wondering if anyone has seen this kind of phenomenon? And any ideas?
Thanks.