[linux-help] Re: Changing monitor

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hallelujah! It worked!!!

"A PBS mind in an MTV world!"

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Lars von dem Ast wrote:

> 
> james l wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >               Tried Xconfigurator? Type that word
> > >               at the command line, choose your
> > >               monitor's & video card's specs when asked
> > >               and you're done, presumably...
> > Some other (not redhat mandrake? specific)
> >
> > If not look at the monitor database (somewhere in /usr) and run xf86config
> > (run it and just ignore everything to find where the monitor database is 
> > then
> > ctrl-c it). It is a text based configuration, and the fastest if you know 
> > the
> > vsync and hsync rates of the monitor once you get used to it.
> >
> > Another option is XF86Config. It is graphical, but Xfree 4.0(.0) didn't have
> > it ported yet. 4.0.1 has it. It also works with xinerma (mulitple graphics
> > cards/monitors) Pretty nice, but it has some problems sometimes.
> >
> > offtopic- I figured out why XF86 4.0 didn't work on the Alpha. It wasn't
> > 'supported' till 4.0.2. Which makes me ask the question-Why were there
> > binarys???
> >
> > James L
> >
> 
> I had tried "xconfig", which is what my laptop's MetroX program uses. I'd
> forgotten "Xconfigurator", which worked like a charm. In fact it was so much 
> fun
> I might just run it each time I log in!
> 
> 
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