Re: [newbie] Monitor setup
On Sunday 05 January 2003 09:29 am, David Robertson stated: With regard to the monitor, the manual should give the horizontal and vertical frequencies, so those can be entered in the custom monitor settings. David I have a sort of weird situation; I didn't know it was possible to overclock a monitor, but that's what I was doing to the old one. It was about 7 years old, part of a factory system with my 2nd computer, and when I switched to Linux (Mdk 8.1, 900 MHz, nVidia card, etc) I kept the monitor. It seemed to be working fine, and I didn't need the extra expense. Except... Occasionally if I actually shut the monitor down and left it overnight, the system would freeze unrecoverable. The monitor acted like it was getting no signal, and there was no way to kill the X-server and recover it; I had to cold boot, which invariably caused a fsck. The strange bit was that if I left the monitor on and let it go to standby/sleep, it would be fine the next morning. So I learned to leave it on. Uptimes stood around a month or so, barring the occasional thunderstorm or vacation. It finally started screwing around whether I shut it off or not, so I got a new monitor; I was tired of dealing with a 14 anyway. So I got a new-to-me monitor, but there is no manual. It's a Dell/Sony Trinitron 17 (Model D1726T-HS). I've found some documentation online for it but dealing with new hardware isn't something I've really had to get a grip on before (I still haven't even bothered to get my nVidia card working). I managed to completely mangle my XFree86 configuration last night, and then got it working again under 800x600x16m, which is where I was at before (though without the overclocking, thankfully). When I first set it up I got a virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to resolve this without trashing my XFree86 setup again? Thanks in advance, David Reynolds -- There are three types of profit: from producing; from investing; from a good reputation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor setup
David Reynolds wrote: On Sunday 05 January 2003 09:29 am, David Robertson stated: With regard to the monitor, the manual should give the horizontal and vertical frequencies, so those can be entered in the custom monitor settings. David I have a sort of weird situation; I didn't know it was possible to overclock a monitor, but that's what I was doing to the old one. It was about 7 years old, part of a factory system with my 2nd computer, and when I switched to Linux (Mdk 8.1, 900 MHz, nVidia card, etc) I kept the monitor. It seemed to be working fine, and I didn't need the extra expense. Except... Occasionally if I actually shut the monitor down and left it overnight, the system would freeze unrecoverable. The monitor acted like it was getting no signal, and there was no way to kill the X-server and recover it; I had to cold boot, which invariably caused a fsck. The strange bit was that if I left the monitor on and let it go to standby/sleep, it would be fine the next morning. So I learned to leave it on. Uptimes stood around a month or so, barring the occasional thunderstorm or vacation. It finally started screwing around whether I shut it off or not, so I got a new monitor; I was tired of dealing with a 14 anyway. So I got a new-to-me monitor, but there is no manual. It's a Dell/Sony Trinitron 17 (Model D1726T-HS). I've found some documentation online for it but dealing with new hardware isn't something I've really had to get a grip on before (I still haven't even bothered to get my nVidia card working). I managed to completely mangle my XFree86 configuration last night, and then got it working again under 800x600x16m, which is where I was at before (though without the overclocking, thankfully). When I first set it up I got a virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to resolve this without trashing my XFree86 setup again? Thanks in advance, David Reynolds Basically you have to visit MCC - harware - monitor and set the choice of setting to that which your Dell/Sony Trinitron 17 (Model D1726T-HS) is best capable of giving you , look in the screen manual and try to match it. You can then set your video card driver to deliver you the best it can and all should be well. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor setup
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. How did you get alt-ctrl +/- working under Mandrake. It used to work great on my old Slackware system, but I haven't got it to work on Mandrake. Do I have to bypass the automatic configuration toold to get it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor setup
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 5:54 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. How did you get alt-ctrl +/- working under Mandrake. It used to work great on my old Slackware system, but I haven't got it to work on Mandrake. Do I have to bypass the automatic configuration toold to get it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Works fine for me (under 9.0) once I got the correct monitor setting. If it isn't set to recognise all the possible resolutions it won't work. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor setup
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 10:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 5:54 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. How did you get alt-ctrl +/- working under Mandrake. It used to work great on my old Slackware system, but I haven't got it to work on Mandrake. Do I have to bypass the automatic configuration toold to get it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Works fine for me (under 9.0) once I got the correct monitor setting. If it isn't set to recognise all the possible resolutions it won't work. Anne Ctl+Alt+ kbd '+'/'-' will rotate through the resolutions defined in your /etc/X11/Xh86Config-4 file. Depending on the monitor you selected, there will be more/fewer resolutions defined. You can always edit the file and define a few more. Here is a sample from my config Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] monitor setup
yes i didbut in my case XFdrake=Xconfigurator...both commands start Xconfigurator ( i did a server install), maybe this is the reason why XF86Setup didnt get installed ? ) meanwhile i solved the problem otherwise..by reinstalling and choosing the graphic card at install time..it now works pretty good...but nevertheless it would be interesting for me how to change video card without reinstalling every time. greets, --quay You don't call XFdrake that way. The command line command to issue at the command prompt is "setuptool". You will be presented with a small menu of utilities to choose from. All to make it possible to configure your system. One of those is XFdrake. Give it a try. Drop out of a console from X by typing CTRL-ALT-F1, login as root, and type "setuptool" on the command line and see what happens. To get back to your X session the command is CTRL-ALT-F7. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] monitor setup
You don't call XFdrake that way. The command line command to issue at the command prompt is "setuptool". You will be presented with a small menu of utilities to choose from. All to make it possible to configure your system. One of those is XFdrake. Give it a try. Drop out of a console from X by typing CTRL-ALT-F1, login as root, and type "setuptool" on the command line and see what happens. To get back to your X session the command is CTRL-ALT-F7. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds ahh--you are right.setuptool did the trick...didnt know of this commandbut now i do---thx alot...;) --quay
Re: [newbie] monitor setup
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dave wrote: I just put a new monitor on my system and now the grapical part of linux won't come up. Question is: how do I change the settings from the command line. I have tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake , but both take me to selecting a video card only. You can edit the XF86config (or XF86Config-4) file in /etc/X11 through vi, vi, vim, vi, pico, joe or emacs, and set your default resolution to 640x480 in the screen section. Select the subscreensection with the proper pixels you intend to use and remove all the other resolution options (better: copy the line, comment it out and modify the original line, for easier backout). Paul -- Problems that are worth taking on Prove their value by fighting back. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] monitor setup
At 19:12 15.01.2001 +0100, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dave wrote: I just put a new monitor on my system and now the grapical part of linux won't come up. Question is: how do I change the settings from the command line. I have tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake , but both take me to selecting a video card only. in my case neither of them does allow me to set my video card.instead both let me choose a monitor is there any other way to select the video card ?..XF86Setup doesnt exist on my system, only xf86config which crashes all the time quay You can edit the XF86config (or XF86Config-4) file in /etc/X11 through vi, vi, vim, vi, pico, joe or emacs, and set your default resolution to 640x480 in the screen section. Select the subscreensection with the proper pixels you intend to use and remove all the other resolution options (better: copy the line, comment it out and modify the original line, for easier backout). Paul -- Problems that are worth taking on Prove their value by fighting back. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] monitor setup
in my case neither of them does allow me to set my video card.instead both let me choose a monitor is there any other way to select the video card ?..XF86Setup doesnt exist on my system, only xf86config which crashes all the time quay Quay, Have you tried to do it using XFdrake as I suggested in an earlier post? That utility should take care of it for you just fine. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] monitor setup
At 23:15 15.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: in my case neither of them does allow me to set my video card.instead both let me choose a monitor is there any other way to select the video card ?..XF86Setup doesnt exist on my system, only xf86config which crashes all the time quay Quay, Have you tried to do it using XFdrake as I suggested in an earlier post? That utility should take care of it for you just fine. yes i didbut in my case XFdrake=Xconfigurator...both commands start Xconfigurator ( i did a server install), maybe this is the reason why XF86Setup didnt get installed ? ) meanwhile i solved the problem otherwise..by reinstalling and choosing the graphic card at install time..it now works pretty good...but nevertheless it would be interesting for me how to change video card without reinstalling every time. greets, --quay -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
[newbie] monitor setup
I just put a new monitor on my system and now the grapical part of linux won't come up. Question is: how do I change the settings from the command line. I have tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake , but both take me to selecting a video card only. -- Dave
[newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?
How do you get back to that program that helped setup the monitor? It had that visual test to see what your settings would look like before you accept it. Seve
Re: [newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?
use Xconfigurator from a prompt or XF86Setup matt
Re: [newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do you get back to that program that helped setup the monitor? It had that visual test to see what your settings would look like before you accept it. Seve boot to console mode (at LILO type "linux 3") and then type "setup" and select "x configuration" John
