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
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.
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
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
: 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
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.
