From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvaJW-000073-HK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:38:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6LCZiQr026168; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:35:44 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6LCT6jD029790 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:29:07 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m22so128471nzf for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:29:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EVrzRMBl2N5YTPuJsLiDs/KfKrJPmkjhf/CEsi/jkZlgwvqJfI33GrWq2ZWRL72+ow8+51tYQQgJYLdol7vSxHkwHZxUJKNPgth+rDakNiYsJLFp7yne97A51axZEXhD4/3nagYoX7gP9fh1La+AJEKlVc+xTW70gNnJZyMj6Ig= Received: by 10.36.222.47 with SMTP id u47mr1049741nzg; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.9.13 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5491fade050721052826e361ef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:28:59 -0400 From: James Hiscock To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor In-Reply-To: <42DF6345.3040306@skynet.be> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050721082452.GA7199@sympatico.ca> <42DF6345.3040306@skynet.be> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6LCT6jD029790 X-Archives-Salt: 98990066-5963-4470-8fc8-7d7ded2fb666 X-Archives-Hash: 65152df8aab7c223b8c6c0beb153065a > >My question to anyone who can advise is this: > >do I just unplug the CRT & plug in the LCD ? will it work so simply ? In most cases, yes, but you'll need to restart X if you do the swap while it's running. > The horysontal sync and vertival refresh rates aren't likely > to be the same, so you'll have to adapt your current xorg.conf > I've read a few times that wrong values can harm your screen > (but never seen it happen) so be careful. > > Or you can use 'xorgconfig' and answer the questions step by step. > I did this on a 17'' dell TFT at work and it worked first try. ...or you could just remove the horizontal sync & vertical refresh lines from your xorg.conf, and let xorg figure it out for you... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list