Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Hello > > We just did an install of 10.3. As a test, when configuring the display > we chose to use the vendor's CD. It seems that the CD was read and some > information extracted. However, after this X was not happy. We needed to > revert back to the pre-vendor-cd xorg.conf. > > My question is: what is looked for and used on a display's vendor cd? In > our case, it is a NEC MultiSync monitor. The display was already > recognized by SAX, so the vendor CD step was not really needed. But I > would not expect it to mess things up. We would like to know if this > could work when we encounter a display that SAX does not already > recognize. >
Why would you ever want to use a vendor CD for monitor config? The monitor information is simply the horizontal and vertical frequencies and display size. All of the needed information can be entered in the sax2 monitor section or you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf directly and set it under the following section: Section "Monitor" Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" DisplaySize 367 230 HorizSync 30-70 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "SAMSUNG LCD MONITOR" Option "DPMS" VendorName "SEC" VertRefresh 50-60 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection The ModelName is irrelevant, it is just a text tag. It could say "virtual paper" for all that it matters. Often sax doesn't have my exact monitor, and I simply enter the information manually. Hope this helps. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
