Re: [Evolution] Incorrect detection of Monitor during installation of openSuSE 11.0 (Out of range)

[MHR <mhullrich gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Roy Leembruggen <rclee80 hetnet nl> wrote:
> Although automatic hardware detection has come a long way since earlier
> versions of Linux, perhaps the following problem/solution would be
> worthy of comment from Linux users.
>
> My older PC (Windows XP) has a peculiar monitor connected to it, namely
> an LCD-TFT type used as both TV Monitor / VGA pc monitor, with 9-pin VGA
> connector, 24-bit colour, 1280 X 1024 resolution (Medion TFT-2055). On
> installing openSuSE  11.0 on it, the monitor was wrongly detected as an
> analog type so that on boot up the screen was black with an "out of
> range" message on  it. To make matters worse, on trying other boot
> options nothing helped and to boot up in text mode (no X Window) on the
> prompt for User name / password, the User name could be entered as root,
> but when the next prompt (password) appeared there was no keyboard
> response at all. As a result I was unable to login.

Forgive me for asking, but what does this have to do with Evolution?

mhr