detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:42:07PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 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?  

no, nothing there.

Can I make anything from this fragment of /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1184  768 771 777
 806 -hsync -vsync (54.9 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628
 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.20  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525
-hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449
-hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777
 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz)


> You can always try Google...

so far no luck

thanks
anton

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