bought a huge monitor, wanna change resolution

Brian Pack darkaudit at gmail.com
Sun May 8 01:04:03 UTC 2005


On Saturday 07 May 2005 08:41 pm, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> >   sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg would be my choice :)
>
> Everytime I do that, it asks me for lots of obscure questions that I
> never know how to answer :-/
> The easiest/safest and also quickest, would be to just run "ddcprobe" to
> get the new monitor frequency ranges, and stuff them in xorg.conf by
> hand, takes 30 seconds.
> If the monitor is so old that it doesn't support DDC, then just look in
> the monitors's printed manual, takes 2 seconds as well...

When I installed my new monitor and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, I only 
had to actually answer a couple of questions (nvidia instead of nv driver, 
and deselecting DRI mode). Everything else was the default. Works fine.

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