[TriLUG] Red Hat 9 and Samsung Monitor

Brent Fox bfox at linuxheadquarters.com
Fri May 2 17:58:30 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 22:04, Mike wrote:
> I need to know how to adjust the vertical refresh rate in RH9 (or buy a new 
> monitor which I can't afford).  The problem is that it has this really 
> annoying whine at 68k (which is the Red Hat/X windows default) but not at 
> 100k which the hardware will support.  Some details:
> 
> Red Hat 9
> Samsung SyncMaster 955df
> Nvidia TNT2 Vanta LT 16MB AGP
> 1024x768 16 bit color


Hmmm, I don't see the SyncMaster 955df in /usr/share/hwdata/MonitorsDB. 
Maybe it needs to be added.

Log in as root and run '/usr/sbin/ddcprobe'.  What does the output of
that say?


Cheers,
   Brent



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