[TriLUG] Red Hat 9 and Samsung Monitor

[Mike]

It says:
[root at TUX X11]# /usr/sbin/ddcprobe

Videocard DDC probe results
Description:  NVidia Corporation Riva TNT
Memory (MB):  16

Monitor DDC probe results
ID: SAM413b
Name: S/M 955DF
Horizontal Sync (kHZ): 30-85
Vertical Sync (HZ)  : 50-160
Width (mm): 360
Height(mm): 270
[root at TUX X11]#

Which matches well with the config file.

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

# Portion removed to save space...

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "S/M 955DF"
        DisplaySize  360        270
        HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "RIVA TNT2"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Mike

On Friday 02 May 2003 17:58, Brent Fox wrote:
> 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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