Hi guys, I currently have an old Pentium 3 computer with Linux SuSE on it and I am hoping to turn it into my home server. I had an IBM CRT monitor, but my Aunt needed a new one. So I swapped monitors with her so she didn't have to go out and buy a new one. The one she gave me, she used on her Pentium 4 that was running Windows XP Home Edition. Now the problem begins.

I boot up my Linux machine, everything works fine, to an extent. This is my first time using a Linux machine so I'm not sure, a screen comes up and it's displaying all of the functions (I think?) that are loading, like saying if it's ON or OFF and all that. Then the next screen I know is the Login, from when I had my old monitor. Everything  shown on the screen is a green background with white lines going up and down the screen. Is this the monitor? I'm not sure since my Aunt had WXP displaying with it...Should I get a new monitor for it?

Thanks in advance!

Sounds like a problem with the refresh rate.  You'll need to change it using whatever tools SuSE has to configure X, or edit the apropriate section of your xorg.conf to set the H/V refresh rates to safe values.

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Sounds like a problem with the refresh rate.  You'll need to change it using whatever tools SuSE has to configure X, or edit the apropriate section of your xorg.conf to set the H/V refresh rates to safe values.
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How would I go about doing that? (I'm not really familar with Linux). I can't see anything anyways so how can I set the refresh rates?

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[quote author=K link=topic=11244.msg108251#msg108251 date=1113262312]
Sounds like a problem with the refresh rate. You'll need to change it using whatever tools SuSE has to configure X, or edit the apropriate section of your xorg.conf to set the H/V refresh rates to safe values.
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How would I go about doing that? (I'm not really familar with Linux). I can't see anything anyways so how can I set the refresh rates?
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You can do it from a terminal -- press CONTROL + ALT + F2 to get a new text terminal.  (press CONTROL+ALT+F7 to go back to your graphical session).

Navigate to your xorg.conf file.  This will usually either be in your home directory or in /etc/X11/ (keep in mind you'll need to be root if you edit this second one).

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emacs xorg.conf
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scroll down (page down, down arrow) until you see something like this:

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# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "My Monitor"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    HorizSync  31.5 - 50.0

#    HorizSync 30-64        # multisync
#    HorizSync 31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync 15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
    VertRefresh 40-90

EndSection
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change the VertRefresh range and HorizSync range to the correct values. You should probably google your monitor and see what values other people use. 
I have a 19" MAG Innovision 986FS and mine are
  HorizSync 30-70
  VertRefresh 50-90.

After you make the changes, press control+x then control+s to save.  Then press control+x then control+c to quit.  restart your x session.

Did all that, finally figured out how. Still is all messed up, what should I do? Install Slackware? Think I will still have the problem?