detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Oct 7 20:42:10 UTC 2008
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...
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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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