Flatscreen Monitor Specifications

[Joel Adamson]

Howdy Y'all,

I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything.  I looked for my monitor specifications last night and have found nothing resembling the 35Hz, 800x600 stuff that is discussed in the handbook.  this would make sense, of course,...

All I've found in Windows Device Manager is something like "Intel 42985G Chipset".

Whenever I've tried liveCDs (FreesBie, various linuces), they have all picked out the monitor just fine (and most everything else).  I just want to cover my bases, in case I end up with a flickering screen, I want to be able to do something about it.

Do you have any suggestions for where I should look for any monitor specifications?  What do I enter when I do my X configuration?

Thanks,
Joel
 

Joel J. Adamson 
Arlington, MA
 		
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