[Gllug] TFT Monitors

[John G Walker]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:17:49 +0000 Peter Cannon
<peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> On Saturday 30 December 2006 13:45, Tethys wrote:
> 
> > Man pages exist for a reason, you know. See xorg.conf(5).
> 
> In my experience man pages are pants! sure they're OK if you now what
> flags you need or what syntax to use but then if you knew those you
> wouldn't need a man page.

I'd have to go some of the way with you. Man pages are useful, but you
need to have a bit of background knowledge to use them - not least,
which ones exist and which don't
> 
> John
> 
> Do YAST-->Hardware--->Card & Monitor properties--->Change Montitor
> 
> You should see a list of Monitors (Mine thinks its an (IGM L19FM)
> there are two other tabs 'Display Size' & 'Frequency' you can
> manipulate the display size and frequency from there if your manual
> for your monitor gives detailed specifications.
> 
> If you get into trouble just run SAX2 from command line it will give
> you a quasi graphical mode to reset your monitor/display settings.
> 
> 

Thanks for the info. I suspect, from discussions elsewhere, on the web,
that the problem may be to do with the chipset in my graphics card. So
nothing I do with the configuration of my monitor is going to help.

Thanks also to all others who gave advice,


-- 
 All the best,
 John
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