On Thursday 03 May 2007, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:08, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having a heck of a time. I've tried so many things, that I'm
> > totally confused.
> >
> > After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure. It gives me a
> > file with no horizontal or vertical sync.
>
> I would think then that you would have to enter these yourself -
> check the manufacturers manual, or the equivalent OEM product
> specification. What I mean here is that Dell are assemblers, or
> box-shifters, they don't actually manufacture components. Their
> products are usually similar with other differently branded products.
> If you find the OEM then you should be able to source the hsync for
> it.
>
> Alternatively, you could try different LiveCDs for one that
> successfully guesses these parameters and run xvidtune to see what
> they are, or look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You could do well to see
> if they load any particular modules for your monitor/keyboard/mouse
> too.
Colleen's machine is a laptop. They don't have horiz and vert sync
signals... Those settings apply only to CRT displays.
99 times out of 100, LCD screens do just fine with a minimal xorg.conf.
Here's mine:
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync 64.8 - 64.8
# VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS" "true"
# DisplaySize 331 207
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "HWCursor" "false"
# Check if these three really work on this hardware...
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAClocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "KGAUniversal" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
#Option "AGPFastWrite" "True"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"
Option "AccelMethod" "xaa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Notice how the only things that are uncommented are unky radeon driver
settings. I can even take the "Modes" line out and it all still works
just fine. That's because virtually all modern monitors/cards speak DDC
and Xorg can ask the hardware when it starts what the hardware
supports.
The only thing Colleen *has* to customize here is the correct "Driver"
for her nvdia card
alan
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