[PLUG] NEC monitor

[Bruce Kilpatrick]

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From: "alan" <alan at clueserver.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] NEC monitor


> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Does anybody here have any experience with NEC monitors?
>> I just installed SuSE 10.0 and it went very well.  The DSL connection was 
>> up and running before we did anything to the new install.  I still don't 
>> have it configured to update yet, but...in time.
>> I have a MultiSync 5FGe monitor and can't seem to get it set up.  Google 
>> didn't turn up any drivers (unless you like WinDoze).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> In the "Desktop" menu there is an item for "yast".  Run that and go to
> hardware then "graphics card and monitor". You should be able to set the
> monitor type from there.  (That monitor is old enough to not have the
> "plug and play" capability on the monitor.)

This monitor has been a problem in every version of SuSE I have tried. 
David was good enough to point me to a web site that had the specs for the 
monitor and I was able to modify the xorg.conf file using Sax and the screen 
looks a lot better now.

Thanks!!

> If that does not work, I can dig out the lines to add to the config file
> to make it work.
>
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