Sorry John, I was not specific enough, I was looking for a command line solution. Here is why...
We have several different types of AMD-based PCs running different versions of the same application on Solaris 10 at various service pack levels. Some of them have ATI cards, others have nVidia, some of them are built-in cards, others are add-ons. To further complicate matters, there are at least 4 different LCD monitors, ranging in size from 15" with 4x3 aspect to 19" wide-screen. Sometimes when one of the monitors fail, the newer monitor comes up with a different resolution than the previous one (typically 1024x768x60); sometimes we get a "resolution not supported" message. As I mentioned earlier, I used to simply run fbconfig -prconf in single-user mode to validate what resolution is supported both by the monitor and the card. The solution you offered below appears to be nVidia specific and GUI driven - I may not be able to bring up a GUI sometimes. Currently we are using sys-unconfig relying on it to properly detect a mutually compatible resolution... Mausul. -----Original Message----- From: John.M.Martin at Sun.COM [mailto:john.m.mar...@sun.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:04 AM To: Hay, Mausul W Cc: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] Proper way to configure a monitor? Hay, Mausul W wrote: > Is there a way to test the video capabilities of the card and monitor > with XORG? With Xsun you could run fbconfig -prconf to get a list of the > resolutions supported by the monitor and the graphics card. Is there an > equivalent command for XORG? > nvidia-settings (X Server Display Configuration -> Resolution: ) will show the list of resolutions validated by the driver. If you switch video modes it will ask for a confirmation and fall back to the old mode just in case the display has troubles.
