On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:08:55 -0700
walt wrote:
On 04/15/2010 05:38 PM, David Relson wrote:
I just retired my Viewsonic 19 CRT in favor of a Viewsonic
VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the
following lines indicate):
(II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594
(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 24 H max: 82
kHz, PixClock max 210 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: VX2433wm
However in Gnome's Display Preferences dialog, the monitor type
shows up as Unknown. What can be done about this?
Additionally, a box saying Unknown (black text on cyan background)
appears on my screen at the upper left corner. This wouldn't matter
except that I like my Gnome panel at the top of the screen and the
box blocks the Main Menu icon. The box appears to be a repeat of
the Gnome Display Preferences dialog's Unknown monitor info. How
can one nuke the box?
Hm. I see the same annoying box at the top left, but only while I
have the Display preferences dialog open. When I close the dialog,
the top- left box disappears.
Do you still have a process running named gnome-display-properties
even after you close the Display preferences dialog box?
Interesting question, but it's too late for me to answer it. While
googling the subject I learned that the ATI driver (or some of
its revisions) only check monitor type upon startup. I restarted
X with ctl-alt-backspace and the extra box went away.
gnome-display-properties _still_ says unknown, but the annoying
box is gone.
