XFree86 Question

[Ed Budd]

Oliver Gould wrote:
> Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13" HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find them anywhere. They are not in the online product manuals and the compaq support people have given me ranges that don't work after telling me the info doesn't exist. I have been guessing away and getting close. Is there some sort of autodetect utility? Is my hardware not supported?
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> Thanks ahead of time,
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> Oliver Gould
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I had the same problem with my Gateway 200X -- scant information on the 
video display provided among the company's website documents and more 
than one call to "tech support" got me little more than "I don't know" 
and redirection to the Windows-based tools for autodetecting settings. 
In the end I simply used "X --config" and followed the directions to get 
a vanilla config. I've occasionally tweaked it when I run into a post 
somewhere talking about a feature that seems cool or relevant or I'm 
just feeling particularly brave that day.

Start modest and consider it an ongoing project. You may also luck out 
and find some sample configs for your particular model at "Linux For 
Laptops" (google this) since the x configuration differs little between 
OSes.

Hope that helps,

EB