Why doesn my monitor work with my FreeGeek Mac?
If your FreeGeek Mac computer didn’t come with it’s own monitor, the monitor that you do use might not work the first time you turn the computer on. Here are a couple of ways the problem might show up: 1. After the Ubuntu startup display progress bar completes, the screen goes blank, then a notice appears that says that the frequency is out of range, and nothing else happens. 2. After the Ubuntu startup display progress bar completes, the screen goes blank, then notice appears that says that the X configuration is wrong, and will be disabled until you correct the problem. This problem happens because the monitor you are using is signifcantly different than the monitor that was connected to your computer when it was first set up at FreeGeek. This situation is not unusual. The setup process discovers information about the monitor that is connected at setup time, and that information is saved in a file on the hard drive. You can correct the problem by running a program that discovers the
