For more info if you do not have the Monitor manual here are some helpful
sites.
http://www.mindspring.com/~nunez/info/monitors/1996/index.html
and...
*http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/monitor.html
*http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Misc/monitors/o-z.html
*http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Misc/monitors/a-n.html
*http://www.monitorservice.com/
*http://www.mela-itg.com/
*http://www.nashville.net/~griffin/mondata.html
good luck
chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 11:40 AM
> To: Hansen, Carl; 'linux'
> Subject: Re: vsync and hsync rates for X (was: [no subject])
>
> The info SuperProbe returns is about your video card. The horizontal and
> vertical sync rates are a characteristic of your monitor. You need to look
> in the documentation that came with your monitor to get this info -- to
> the
> best of my knowledge, all modern (i.e., SVGA or better) monitors include
> these numbers on the spec sheet.
>
> I haven't seen a socket error 2 before, but I suspect it is another of
> those
> unhelpful error reports -- telling you that some app cannot start because
> it
> can't find the X server. You need to look earlier in the stderr output, to
> find why the server itself isn't starting (possibly because you have hsync
> &/or vsync wrong, causing the server to have no valid operating modes -
> this
> happens a lot to beginners doing X setup).
>
> As to the install error - did it really say "tqz" or is that a typo for
> "tgz"? In any case, modutils contains these apps, plus associated
> documentation (man pages) and a few odds and ends of source:
>
> drwxr-xr-x root/bin 0 1998-02-23 15:28 sbin/
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 30184 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/insmod
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 23804 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/lsmod
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 7136 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/ksyms
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 32604 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/genksyms
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 22988 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/modprobe
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 15592 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/modinfo
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 10548 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/kerneld
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 1046 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/request-route
> -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 25124 1998-10-11 21:41 sbin/depmod
>
> None of this looks relevant to X to my eye, but I could be missing
> something. (BTW, for future reference, go to the "Contents" directory of
> the
> Slackware CD to get a listing of what is in each .tgz file.) For now, I'd
> suggest you check if these apps are on your system and, if not, reinstall
> them by hand - even if they are not important to an X install, some of
> them
> are very important. (If you have real Slackware CDs, not cheapies, you can
> just grab what you need from the "Live" directory tree. If not, use
> pkgtool
> or install by hand.)
>
> At 10:09 AM 4/6/99 -0700, Hansen, Carl wrote:
> >Help with configuration.
> >
> >need to know horizontal and vertical rates for CL-GD5428
> >1024 kb mem
> >15/16/24 bit DCA
> >6 bit wide lookup table
> >
> >
> >this is the info SuperProbe returned
> >the monitor is a Packard Bell
> >trying to configure X window and getting socket error 2
> >cannot connect to the server.
> >
> >Only error on full install was /var/log/mount/slakware/a8/modutils.tqz
> >are these required?
>
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