Moniter Setup Help

timrs · 02-08-2006, 04:11 PM

My moniter is a Samsung 700DF, it uses 0.20mm dot pitch, 1280x1024 resolution, 30-85kHz horizontal and 50-160 vertical sync rates from samsung's website. Debian installation made my resolution at 800x600 when it asked me the sync rates. How can I manually configure this? (kcontrol doesn't work)

Simon Bridge · 02-08-2006, 05:27 PM

The settings are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Look for something like:

Code:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Dell 1501FP (Analog)"
        DisplaySize  300        230
        HorizSync    30.0 - 61.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

... after that there will be sections for "device" and "screen" ... where you stick things will be apparent.

timrs · 02-08-2006, 08:41 PM

thanks, but this file isn't there. Im using the latest debian, i think your using a different system

timrs · 02-08-2006, 08:45 PM

actually i found a file called /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 with the exact information, nevermind that last message

Simon Bridge · 02-09-2006, 10:43 PM

Debian is still using XFree86?? I thought they were fussier than that!

I'me using FC4 and Ubuntu (see side panel) - both of these use XOrg due to changes in the XFree licence and stuff like that. It's kinda odd that a recent standard Debian isn't doing the same since Ubuntu is basically a subset of debian.