On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 00:17, Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; > I have a Panasonic E15 monitor attatched to an old Pentium 1 box > running Mandrake 9.1. The default setup in the Mandrake Control Center > for this particular monitor doesn't function right, so I have it set at > a generic 800x600 screen @ 60Hz, which is what it is... but to display > 1024x768 (The max resolution) I have to display at 75Hz (Under Windows > anyway), but it doesn't let me change it from 60Hz to 75Hz. > The long and short of it is I wanna tell my computer to > display 1024x768 at 75Hz, and I can't do that through the easy nifty > little control center... so how can I? > Thanx & God Bless, > ES
Setting refresh rates really ought to be easier in Linux. What you need to do is edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as root (An easy way to edit as root is Alt+F2 then type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box. You then have a root version of konqueror, right click on a file to open an editor) In the 'Monitor Section' Find the lines beginning HorizSync VertRefresh Set them to the parameters for your Panasonic E15 which according to this site http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/panasonic/panasynce15.html are :- HorizSync 31.0-61.0 VertRefresh 50.0-90.0 Now when you restart X (Ctl+Alt+Backspace) X will use the best refresh rate possible within the constraints of that specification. To set the resolution go to the 'Screen' section and set it like this Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection If that does not work, then you will have to start playing with modelines which are rather more complex. -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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