Also check that the video driver is appropriate for your hardware. I 
have an Averatec (wide screen) that had the same problem. I had to 
change xorg.conf device driver to "sis" (match your video card) from 
"vesa" (generic).

Jared Anderson wrote:

> Likely, the problem is with your resolution.  Flat panels have a native resolution. 
> You must learn your laptop's native resolution and change the active screen section
> of your XF86Config / xorg.conf file accordingly.  Here is a snippet of that section
> for my laptop:
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier	"Screen0"
>     Device 	"ATIFireGL"
>     Monitor	"FlatPanel"
>     DefaultDepth 24
>     Subsection "Display"
>     	Depth		24
>     	Modes		"1400x1050"   
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection
> 
> 
> GL...
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:50:03 -0700, Robert Rosenwald pushed these keyboard buttons:
> ==============================================================================
> 
>>I'm new to this ug and linux. Spent a lot of years with POSSI and still 
>>run OS/2 on a couple of boxes but decided it was time to learn Linux. I 
>>have a notebook - Sony 505TR - which uses a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive. I was 
>>going to install Gentoo (sort of got that working on another box a few 
>>months back) but had problems so I tried SuSE 8.1 which installed no 
>>problem. The problem is that when I startup it goes through the boot 
>>(all seems to load fine -- no errors showing -- but then it tries to go 
>>into X and the screen goes black. So I tried Safe Settings from Lilo and 
>>that gets me to a command prompt where I can login. All's fine to there. 
>>When I try to use YAST2 (XConfigurator doesn't seem to be installed) to 
>>reconfigure the video system it looks to me like it is autprobing and 
>>again screen goes blank. so I believe there is a file ( possibly 
>>XF86Config) that needs tweaking. But I'm unsure what to tweak and how to 
>>tweak it. I think I can get Vi to work but when I go into the file 
>>there's a big warning about DO NOT EDIT. I'm unsure if the admonition is 
>>BS and even if it isn't what to change and how to change it. What I do 
>>know is that this notebooks wants 1024 x 768 and 16 colors.
>>
>>I have seen one other poster discussing this machine and he mentions 
>>that the Monitor section should have  HorizSync 31.5-48.5  VertRefresh 60.
>>
>>Hopefully someone out there can point me in the right direction. One of 
>>these days this fall I'll start coming to user group meetings but I'm 
>>travelling almost nonstop until Sept.
>>
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