On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > > > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > > > just do: > > > > > > startx -- :1 -screen <itsidentifier> > > > > but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor can > > handle? i've tried xvidtune, xf86cfg, xf86config, > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, discover read-edid (major > > lockup, there), xviddetect, XFree86 -configure... > > > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much > > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds. > > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that > > kind of info? > > CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My > recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy > refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long > shot. > I too have a couple of 14" monitors, interlaced ones to boot. I used to work at 1024x768 with interlace option earlier. X 4.x no longer supports that.
On such machines running woody, I just installed X 3.3.6 and I could get 1024x768. Of course, with the flicker, etc. headache is assured :-) Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]