On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:16:14AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > This is about a 1995 monitor; and as such, it's showing a few signs of > age. at the wrong timings, the monitor 'ghosts' lines -- windows will > cast 'shadows' across the screen. Ick. > I'm driving it with the second head of a Matrox G400; which > unfortunately has a crappy clock on it that only goes to 135MHz. so > maximum resolution and refresh rate is kind of limited. :( Have you tried running "X -configure" as root? It gives a very basic, but useable probe of the monitor and your card capabilities. It doesn't provide a Modes line to the Screen Section, but you don't need that right away. Because of the exclusion of the Modes line, X will try to go at the highest resolution available that it detects. If this works, great! If it doesn't, throw in a Modes line for your desired resolution, then manually tweak the horizontal frequence range. Xvidtune works OK, but it's not really necessary, unless you have a REALLY broken monitor, one that doesn't report it's capabilities correctly to X. In that case, I suggest you read the manual for the monitor to get it's published capabilities and compute the ModeLines yourself. There is documentation in X to do this. Don't remember off the top of my head, though. I've done this a number of times for my stupid Panasonic S70, before I remembered to keep a copy on a medium that wouldn't get clobbered. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011116/ecfe5cbd/attachment.pgp