[gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

[Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>]

LCD monitors have come down to within my price range
& while my present CRT monitor has no problems,
it has occurred to me that if it did go on the blink,
I would buy an LCD to replace it & anyway might do so eg in 2006.
The model which looks best today is a Samsung 713V 17" at  CAD 299 
(my present 5-year-old CRT monitor is a Samsung 550s 15" ).

I use Xorg & plan to go over to Udev in the near future;
presumably with Udev, I would also have Hot/Coldplug installed.

I recall that when I installed Gentoo 031005 ,
I had to copy manually the monitor lines from my previous box,
which was running Mandrake, in order to get the monitor to work properly.
Without a working screen, there's no way I could do that this time.

My question to anyone who can advise is this:
do I just unplug the CRT & plug in the LCD ?  will it work so simply ?
If not, what more is needed ?

I looked at the Gentoo forum, wiki & dox, but found nothing to help.

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