On September 27, 2004 3:05 pm, dev.loop@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Could you please describe, what you mean by "playing around". Which > utils did you use ? KMenu (in KDE3.2)->System Settings->Display Dual Head section checked "Use Dual Head" (this writes to xorg.conf file) Then KMenu (in KDE3.2)->Preferences->Control Center Peripherals section, Display subsection (I think) and then I played with things. The problem is that today I "upgraded" to KDE 3.3 and now I can't find that section, so I can't even do the things that worked at first, then stopped working yesterday. Sigh. KDE is getting so damn bloated and buggy, I think I will go back to DOS. > Booting to Win wont change the settings in Linux. Therefore there wont > be any difference, when you boot back to linux. Well, I theorized that a signal to turn off was being sent to the monitor and linux was refusing to send a 'turn back on' signal, so I just wanted to see if the monitor was toasted or if it would still work, and we all know that things do work in Windows, as much as I hate to use it. > > Does anyone know where/how I can turn the monitor back on, even in > > normal, single image mode, in linux? I don't care if it's a KDE or just a > > straight linux solution. > > The place to look is your xorg.conf > The following are the changes I made to my XF86Config (thats not X > Org, therefore it might be slitely different) > Add these lines to the "Device" section > # Option "TwinView" > # Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50" > # Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60" > # Option "MetaModes" "1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, > 640x480;" # Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE" > # Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G" > > Change as appropriate. Thanks. Too scary for me, I think. I've gotten the impression over the years that tinkering with X if you don't know what you're doing can cause actual damage to hardware. So I think I'll pass. -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
