Monitor problem (WAS: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com)

[Andrew Kane]

Thanks David, you are correct, as I found out yesterday. I guess I
should RTFM before sounding off.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:39:41 -0800
> Andrew Kane <googoleyes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been my experience that monitor sync rates are not always
>> correctly detected. For example, my Viewsonic CRT is sometimes
>> detected as having a max vert refresh rate of 60 Hz(!) and sometimes
>> having a max rate of 75 Hz. This monitor should be capable of 160 Hz.
>> This wouldn't be a big deal if one could set those parameters
>> manually, for example by editing xorg.conf, but sadly this is no
>> longer the case as far as I have been able to determine.
>
> Untrue, xorg.conf is still editable and in use, xorg will try to guess what hardware you have and _then_ will parse xorg.conf and use those settings in place of the automatically guessed ones.