Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Monitor Help/Red Hat

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
>
> This probably less an issue of which distribution of Linux you are using than it is the release of XFree.

I'm running Debian 2.0.36 for a kernel and whichever X release comes with it.

With any new monitor I plan on spending an afternoon getting X up and running. On some of these monitors one can peel off the case
and see who the OEM is. ie. mine says HP on the outside but is a Hitachi. There is a lot of help in the HOWTO-timings.html that
come with the release.

Once you get a modeline that works you back it up, write it down, etc. and keep it someplace safe( VERY safe).

Dave