I have a monitor that is not detected by three distributions that I have tried: SuSE, Fedora, or Mandriva. Nor is it listed as an option to manually select in any hardware configuration tool in either of these distributions. The monitor works fine, however, the settings have to be manually entered into the computer, something which a newbie, or someone without a manual, would have difficulty doing.

Interestingly enough, the monitor was once included in the SuSE line before verion 8.1, but I have not seen compatibility since. It seems odd to me that hardware that was once automatically detected would lose this support in later distributions.

I am wondering if there is something that I can do to bring support for this monitor back to Linux and to its many distributions?

One way is to start a thread called:

HOWTO: configure <monitor name>

presumably you looked up the monitors specs and manually edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to make X recognise them. So the body of the message would be a copy of the relevant parts of your xorg.conf...

If the monitor was supported in old distros and no more, then it is probably considered legacy. It may well work with the generic settings, in that case.

If you'd like support to be included in future releases, then you should submit a bug report to the maintainsers of distros for which support has vanished.

To be more specific, I'd need to know which monitor you are talking about.

Princeton VF723

Princeton VF723?
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