On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, John Gay wrote: > clock freq, then the horiz and vert freq's are listed by period. Is there a > simple formula to translate these periods to the settings used by X, or does > the > Video card have some influence on these setting as well. I used XF86Setup to > set > up my X server. Is there a simple way to back up the settings for X? What > files > should I save? My system automatically boots into X using xdm. If I trash my X > settings, can I get into a terminal to move the back up files to recover from > serious failures? I meant to bring in the manual for my monitor to copy the > info > into this mail, but I left it at home. Would this info be useful to someone to > suggest settings for X? I can bring it in tomorrow.
Read the XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO and if that gets too complicated (it did for me) there is a program on sunsite, oops metalab called videogen, it will ask you for your horiz, vert freqs and a few other odds and ends and print out modelines. It's at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/videogen-0.16.tar.gz, I don't think there is a deb of it but I could be wrong. -- Ashley Clark
