[newbie] LM install - moniter data
Hello, list: During your LM installation, were you asked about your monitor's highest resolution and refresh rate? I ask this because I watched Leo Laporte and co-host install Linux Red Hat 5.X on one of their computers and the above monitor data was one of the questions that the install process asked for. I looked up on my Win98 monitor properties and, I think, found the highest res. to be 1600 X 1200 but there was no refresh rate specified. Could find that info anywhere. Would that be important to this LM 6.0 install or not? Thanks for any pointers Richard
Re: [newbie] LM install - moniter data
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: I looked up on my Win98 monitor properties and, I think, found the highest res. to be 1600 X 1200 but there was no refresh rate specified. Could find that info anywhere. Would that be important to this LM 6.0 install or not? Probably only for X-windows. If you don't plan on running in GUI mode ever, then the answer is "no, it's not important." However, as I doubt that you plan on ignoring GUI mode, I would go to the manufacturer's website and check out the stats on your monitor (unless it's a "no-name" monitor, in which case you may be out of luck and have to guess! IF you have to guess, I strongly suggest you guess on the "conservative side" to save you from "breaking" your monitor!) -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
Re: [newbie] LM install - moniter data
OK This will not be gilt-edged, but it will work til you find your monitor manual. Almost all monitors recently made will at least go this far, but you might want to check if your monitor is listed instead of selecting "custom" out of hand. Select Non-Interlaced SVGA for the horizontal frequency setting and 50-90 for the vertical. Richard, install already. You are making this more complicated than it needs to be. Civileme Richard Salts wrote: Hello, list: During your LM installation, were you asked about your monitor's highest resolution and refresh rate? I ask this because I watched Leo Laporte and co-host install Linux Red Hat 5.X on one of their computers and the above monitor data was one of the questions that the install process asked for. I looked up on my Win98 monitor properties and, I think, found the highest res. to be 1600 X 1200 but there was no refresh rate specified. Could find that info anywhere. Would that be important to this LM 6.0 install or not? Thanks for any pointers Richard
Re: [newbie] LM install - moniter data
You will need to go find the book on your monitor if you still have it to set this up, but you can also just let the utility probe it for info. It's better than when Leo did his demo several months ago. In fact when I set up my Mandrake box I used the settings for the monitor in the Xfree86 setup section, but I found out that on my second install I didn't need to enter this info. I just let the installer probe the video card and monitor and all was fine. Brian -Original Message- From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, list: During your LM installation, were you asked about your monitor's highest resolution and refresh rate? I ask this because I watched Leo Laporte and co-host install Linux Red Hat 5.X on one of their computers and the above monitor data was one of the questions that the install process asked for. I looked up on my Win98 monitor properties and, I think, found the highest res. to be 1600 X 1200 but there was no refresh rate specified. Could find that info anywhere. Would that be important to this LM 6.0 install or not? Thanks for any pointers Richard
Re: [newbie] LM install - moniter data
Yes, your 'monitor data' is very important as giving wrong data might blow up some older monitors (don't get dramatic about this though, I've maltreated several monitors, and I never had one blowing up in my face) What you need to know about your monitor is: The highest resolution it can handle and for each resolution the maximum horizontal and vertical refresh rates. The best place to look for this is in your monitor's manual, on the manufacturer's website or in newsgroups. Patrick - Original Message - From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] LM install - moniter data Hello, list: During your LM installation, were you asked about your monitor's highest resolution and refresh rate? I ask this because I watched Leo Laporte and co-host install Linux Red Hat 5.X on one of their computers and the above monitor data was one of the questions that the install process asked for. I looked up on my Win98 monitor properties and, I think, found the highest res. to be 1600 X 1200 but there was no refresh rate specified. Could find that info anywhere. Would that be important to this LM 6.0 install or not? Thanks for any pointers Richard
Re: [newbie] LM install - moniter data
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Richard Salts wrote: During your LM installation, were you asked about your monitor's highest resolution and refresh rate? You are, unless your monitor is in the list of directly known ones. Would that be important to this LM 6.0 install or not? If you use X, yes. However, you can just select a monitor similar to yours in the list, and it'll usually work. If you don't know anything about your monitor, select "Highscreen LE1024", which is about the worst 14" monitor that ever existed. It will give you far from optimal settings, but you're 100% safe. LLaP bero
