On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:05, Ken Chamberlain wrote: > My monitor died today. :( > > I plugged in an old 14"er that was sitting around, but it doesn't have > the capabilities of the other monitor. How can I configure GDM for a > different monitor? The graphical display was unreadable. I was able to > CNTL-ALT-F3 and login to a text based display and switch to "init 3" > mode so that GDM and X and all the graphical tasks are not running. Now > I would like to get graphical mode working with the new monitor. In try (as root) redhat-config-xfree86 I believe it has a character based version if there is no X display running. > case the broken monitor is repairable, is there configuration files I > can backup to make falling back to the current configuration easier? Yes - /etc/X11/XF86Config and this is where you may have to make some changes if the xfree86 config can't recognise your new (old?) monitor. Cheers, Ben > -- > Ken Chamberlain > University of Toronto > phone:416-978-1582 > email:ken.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxxxx >
