Here's my scenario: Several months ago, I had Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 9.2 working correctly. The only thing I changed was buying new monitor. My old monitor (which was like 7 years old) ran them both perfectly.

Sadly, with my new monitor, Fedora Core 1 has this amazingly bright screen that looks like someone yanked up the brightness all the way, and Mandrake 9.2 doesn't detect any screens, and won't boot X. I change the gamma in FC1 but nothing helps at all.

If I just get Mandrake 10, will it fix all of this mess?

Video Card: Radeon 9000

I don't know anything about Mandrake or Fedora, but my video card is a Radeon 9000 pro 128MB. If you want my xf86config I can post it so you can compare the two. I am running the 4.4.0 version, not 4.3. I even have video acceleration working well. I don't do games, so I can't swear to the performance, but in playing with Tux Racer, it at least moves rapidly.

make sure you set the correct refresh rate ranges or what not in the xf86config file for your new monitor... that may help you...

Nope. MDK 9.2 won't recognize a screen, and Fedora decided to blind me.

Well, wait everyone, could this happen due to the fact I have an SVIDEO cable outputting to my TV screen? If I yanked this out, do you think it would work?

...or does Xfree ignore stuff like that? What gets me is that's the only thing I've changed - The svideo cable and the new monitor....

Try it and see!

I've wiped my ext3 partition again because Windows was freaking out with 1.5 gbs left....

I had the same problem, and I just unplugged the S-Video from the card and it worked just fine.

It seems that the Radeon cards view the S-Video as the main video output if it's present. It looked great on my TV (until it tried starting X, then things got a little wonky), but the monitor was all screwed up. I'm lookin' for a work around and let you know if I find something.