[Sussex] Installing Gentoo - more questions

[Iain Stevenson]

X windows 4 uses XF86Config-4.  If you have X windows 4 try renaming the 
other file just to be sure it's not used.  You may be able to use xvidtune 
to tune the nonitor

  Iain


--On Friday, December 19, 2003 6:51 pm +0000 john <big-john at dsl.pipex.com> 
wrote:

> On Friday 19 December 2003 9:27 am, David Chapman wrote:
>
>> I think this is the refresh rate of your monitor that needs to be
>> changed. Here's mine.
>>
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>>
>>     Identifier  "201b"
>>
>> # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
>> # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
>> # comma separated list of ranges of values.
>> # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
>> # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
>>
>>     HorizSync   30-94
>>
>> #    HorizSync	30-64         # multisync
>> #    HorizSync	31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
>> #    HorizSync	15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
>>
>> # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
>> # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
>> # comma separated list of ranges of values.
>> # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
>> # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
>>
>>     VertRefresh 50-160
>>
>> EndSection
>>
>> DO NOT use this.
>> Have a look at your Mandrake XF86Config to get the correct HorizSync &
>> VertRefresh rates
>
> Thanks Dave,
>
> I've got those, the only minor difference was that I found the "H" & "V"
> sync  rates at the philips site and they show the vertrefresh as being 48
> - 160,  I'll change it to round it up to the 50 and see if that makes any
> difference.
>
> For info, the ModeLine that seems to get generated everytime I try to do
> a  modification, is confusing the hell out of me, I've had to comment out
> 3 of  the 4 that are there at the moment, but when I have a look in
> mandrake to see  what that's got things set as, I find that there's
> XF86Config and another  called XF86Config-4, and to be honest, I don't
> know how to work out which is  the file that is being used, but the
> "Config" has about 50 or so modelines  and the "Config-4" has 4, so I'm
> still in the dark as to how to correct this.
>
> regards
>
> John D.
>
>
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