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After installing Debian 5 on a Dual-Core Xeon machine, my display connected to the NVIDIA Quadro FX display card shows me an "out of range" error after the boot-up completes. I see the terminal text (login prompt) though.
This is mostly because my card is supplying a video signal of a higher resolution than 1024×768. How do I lower the resolution via the login prompt? I've installed Debian with the grub bootloader.
Perhaps try creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with something like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "VNC Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "VNC Screen"
Device "VNC Device"
Monitor "VNC Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VNC Monitor"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection
... where 1280x1024 would be replaced by the resolution you want.
I did not test it myself; this is from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8636175 (first post).
The Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, as the name implies, is meant to be basic. This means you are locked to a resolution of 1024x768 and have minimal desktop eye candy.
To resolve this issue, install display drivers provided by the video card manufacturer. AMD's Catalyst 12.8 or later "for Windows 8" has been working perfectly for me on Server 2012.
Or, you can just ignore the issue. If you're going to install Server Core into production (eventually) anyway, then it doesn't really matter much whether you have display drivers or not.
(I don't know about your audio; mine works fine...)
Best Answer
X11/Xorg are hard to deal with at the best of times.
Now there are a couple things you can do. One would be to familiarize yourself with the Xorg and write a new config by hand. It may not sound like much fun, but you'll be better able to handle such issues in the future.
Another option is to let dpkg re-create the default config for you. You can do this by running:
If that doesn't work out the way you'd hoped and you have the nvidia proprietary drivers installed, you should be able to have them create a more better config that takes full advantage of your video card. The command for that is:
Now remember, in order to see any changes, you are going to have to restart Xorg. Depending on your distro and version, you can do this by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but you'll have a guaranteed restart of Xorg by logging out. If you're level of FUD is high enough, just restart.Good luck and I hope this helps.
PS- I recently helped my brother with this same problem. Here are some sample configs should you decide to hand-write/edit your config: sample1 sample2