Quote Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia
OK, first I thought it was a RAM problem due to the BIOS setting, but when I switched back to 1MB, 640x480x16 works ok.

Then I thought it was a defective Monitor as the whole lab has the exact same hardware and the exact same install (knoppix-installer as debian 20031119). So I swaped monitors with a working station and got the same blinking lights and no video again.

Then in kxconfig I changed from a generic/i810 card to an intel/i810 card and changed the Xres to 1024x768. After rebooting I get the same problem, but the output worked fine on my LCD projector! the generic seting does too.

So, I find that the problem is the wrong monitor default in kcontrol (ie: kxconfig). On all the other PCs it defaults to dell/della000. On this PC, the dell monitors listed are all different so it defaulted to monitor0/monitor0???

BTW, its really a Dell E551 monitor. I'm reinstalling the whole knoppix partition right now in hopes of correcting the incorrect monitor data....

Any other suggestions are welcome!

TIA,
AJG
If you have the proper horizontal and vertical settings for the monitor then you do not the Load "ddc" that is most likely in the file and may be causing problems by detecting the monitor wrong so comment that line out in your XF86Config-4 and make sure of the setings and restart the xserver and see if that helps.