Re: starting X fails: out of scan range

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

libre fan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Debian Etch+Sid and Xubuntu Dapper dual-boot. 
>
> Last Friday I updated Debian (lot of xorg stuff was updated) and when I 
> rebooted I got this message on the screen: out of scan range
>
> Though  X is started (I typed startx on a terminal)  Wdm (my display
> manager) doesn't load.
>
> Is the message to do with the monitor config? Everyting worked fine before
> hand -- I have had Debian-based distros for about three years now without
> any hardware problems.
>
> What can I do? Can you help me? perhaps I could downgrade: comment the sid
> lines oin my sources.list, pat-get get update, uninstall x.org, reinstall it
> from the Etch repositories?
>
> There must be a simpler way. Run xorg config?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
>
>
>  
Sounds to me like the error your getting is because your monitor 
settings are not correct in your /etc/X/xorg.conf file.  You probably 
replaced your config when you updated.  Reconfiguring the xserver-xorg 
package ('sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg') might fix your problem.

--
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque