Hi....another one from me...This time, my question deals with X window system....

Many times I have tried to install linux on machines whose hardware configuration is not known to me...today was one of such times...If I am not sure, what should be the values that I should give to various parameters like VGA card, Monitor and most importantly the HSYNC and VSYNC values for a standard 14/15 inch monitor...These days I am exploring Mandrake 9.2 and today X didn't run on a machine on which I installed mandrake...

I would like to know if there are any generic settings for VGA Card, Video RAM, Monitor and its HSYNC and VSYNC values that I can just stick to and run GNOME and KDE on my linux box.....(Of course, I have used both xf86cfg and xf86config, but didnt have much success..)..so pls guide me..

Regards,

--amit

as for horizontal and vertical sync, google your moniter name. The specs should be easy to find.

most any monitor could handle 800x600 at 72. if not then at 60, then below that is 640x480 at 60.