detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> writes:

> I've a monitor (Mobi M15MPC) with no docs.
> I've searched the net but cannot find any info on sync and refresh rate for it.
> I've done Xorg -configure, but testing with X -config xorg.conf.new
> shows screen shifted to the side and very nasty blinking, from which 
> I deduced that perhaps I need to specify correct sync, refresh and mode.
>
> Are there any commands to get sync and refresh from the monitor?

If X can't probe the monitor for its settings, I wouldn't trust any
other method of probing it either.

Not to overlook the obvious: are the settings written on the back of
the monitor?  

You can always try Google...

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/