On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am > on vacation for the next several weeks. > > I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my > XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented monitor. > > Is there any tool that will probe the monitor and determine the > allowable refresh rates and/or other parameters? Is there a generic > configuration that can be used safely with most monitors?
"XFree86 -configure" will cause X server to load all video driver modules, probe for available hardware, and write out an initial XF86Config-4 file based on what was detected. See man XFree86 for more details. This may do what you want. I recall this only identified a few specific modes that worked and not the full Horizsync and VertRefresh ranges my monitor was capable of. -- Jerome
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