Help with new monitor

[Norman Silverstone]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:14 -0400, Russell Blau wrote:
> "Martin J Hooper" <martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:d8nd78$f7t$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> >
> > and then put the relevent details in when asked.
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure normally detects your montior settings anyway - At
> > least it does on my 19" CRT...
> 
> Thanks for the pointer!  This has been a frustrating process, but I finally
> (after about 6 attempts) got it to a point where I can at least boot into
> the GUI successfully and see it on my monitor.  I still can't get it to
> accept the resolution settings that the monitor specs say are the optimum,
> but I'm going to continue tinkering...

Have you tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -pcritical xserver-xorg I think it
would work.

Norman