Thanks for the suggestions; I gave this a try. I also set the hsync to
31.0-64.3 (Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz) and I still get the
same result.

It probably doesn't help that I don't have a manual for my monitor and
can't seem to find specs on it. (It is an "Xtreme Professional
Display", I think made by KDS).

BenneJezzerette wrote:
> Brett Tyre wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I've been trying this for a few weeks now. I've got an original ATI
>> Radeon (64mb SDR) and I'm running Slackware 10.1 I can get a command
>> prompt, and I've played around with the xorg.conf, but no matter what,
>> startx always brings up a blank screen from which I can't escape.
>> Even the menu button on the monitor doesn't bring up anything. I have
>> to ctrl-alt-del to restart the system.
>>
>> I tried on FreeBSD, and while X Window still won't start, it at least
>> boots me back to the command prompt with the following errors:
>>
>> Caught signal 11. Server aborting.
>> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>> xauth: (argv):1: bad disaply name ":0" in "remove" command
>>
>> Anyone able to help me? I'm about to give up on *nix systems until I
>> can get a different video card to try.
>
>
> Hello, if you have this problem it is with your video, also to get out
> of the XWindow control backspace. This works. Now this is something I
> ran across and you can use this and it should work without a problem.
> type at the command prompt, xorgsetup. Let it set your display by it's
> self as it will probe your card and display. I have an idea why you have
> had some problems, You were trying to get 1024x768 24 bit color. You did
> not set your display correctly. Doing this will crash XWindows. The fix
> is setting the verticle synch, or virticle refresh to 50-120, this will
> give you 1024x768. Or run xorgconf and walk though the steps but the
> xorgsetup seems to fix this problem automatically. Hope this helps.