Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Monitor Help/Red Hat

Jon,

Yeah, it was a long (long) time ago, but I was programming IBM's old
monochrome monitor, and I managed to blow it! Not quite the same as a
bit 20" color monitor, but I still felt bad.

Alan

Jon Elson wrote:

>
> Ian Wright wrote:
>
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > What version of RedHat are you using? For some reason RH seems to be a
> > bit
> > picky about which monitors it will use and you can spend a long time
> > getting
> > nowhere. If its RH5.2 I would load up the XF86Setup .rpm and use that
> > to
> > sort out the monitor.
>
> Yes, I've done that for a variety of multi-sync monitors, but I wasn't
> the originator
> of this thread.
>
> > For some reason this prog is not loaded by default but
> > it seems almost essential to set up a monitor properly. You don't get
> > this
> > option with RH6.x and have only got XF86Configurator which is nowhere
> > near
> > as good. I have just reloaded one of my machines and thought I would
> > try out
> > RH6.2 but there was no way it would work my old Compaq monitor
> > correctly so
> > I eventually put Mandrake7 back in and that sorted the monitor out
> > right
> > first time!
>
> Hmmm, that's useful to know. I think that the RH5.2 Xfree monitor sync
> program is quite powerful,
> but dangerous, and hard to understand unless you are really familiar
> with video signals.
>
> Jon
>
>
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