Hugh Lovette wrote: > I'm still not sure my advice pointed to the best route... It worked > for me but after posting I remembered I'd also found another way which > involved bringing up the dialog for choosing display and video card > hardware. I think the command was displayconfig-gtk - can't be sure > since I'm not booted into kubuntu at the moment (I apt-get installed > it, though, and it looks like what I remember.) > > That allowed me to choose the hardware from a substantial list
It's the same for Suse's Sax2. In the hardware list for Sax2 there was a Monitor called Medion MD1998LM, while I have got a MEDION MD1998JB, but it's fine for my monitor too, thus I only had to puzzle out a way to make the Suse xorg.conf compatible for 64 Studio 3.0-beta3. For my old monitor this failed, because it's "wounded". Some years ago it was possible to add some vague parameters to the xorg.conf, so it was possible to set up frequencies for this wounded monitor, but today this don't work any more. Hm, displayconfig-gtk already is installed, there is a list with monitors, but the one I'm using now isn't in this list. It might be that Lifetec/ Medion is a custom name for a monitor sold by German supermarkets and that in other countries, the same monitor has got another name. There might be an advantage for Suse, because it's a German distro. Anyway, Windows is fine without knowing what monitor is used and Linux once was fine too with unknown monitors. Even if it's solved for my monitor and 64 Studio now, I'm disappointed, because I know that changing the monitor can cause trouble. Btw. on Windows the frequency is at 100Hz, while on Linux it's at 90Hz for the same resolution. This is no problem for this high frequencies, but for some monitors a less optimized frequency might become an issue, e.g if a monitor will use a frequency of 70Hz instead of possible 75Hz. > [snip] > > Sorry for previous misdirection. > It's not a misdirection. The information about "$ xrandr --newmode", resp. the link to http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 are very helpful. Btw. also Gustin's information about "xrandr" is very helpful. Also knowing about modeline calculators like http://amlc.berlios.de/ is very helpful. Having knowledge about the possibilities given for Ubuntu based installations is good. Depending to the problem one or the other way, might be a quick solution for some of us. Thank you for your effort :). Cheers, Ralf PS: I'm not using Windows. I'm using Suse and 64 Studio and I prefer 64 Studio, excepted of the monitor issue 64 Studio on my computer is the distro, that for multimedia is the better out of the box solution. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
