By the looks of your config, you are using a config file generated by 
"XFree86 -configure"... that usually generates a working config, but it 
doesn't get much more generic than that.

The normal debian way to reconfigure your x server would be to run:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
and that would take you back into the initial config and ask you ALL 
(even the ones you didn't see before) questions over again, with your 
previous answers as defaults, but that only works if you haven't 
modified your config...

To my understanding with the way you have it configured now.. the 
xserver will grab the sync info from the monitor, and go with that, but 
if you have an older monitor and that support the PNP stuff it will 
default to VGA.  You will want to manually add the vert and horiz 
refresh rates of your monitor.

Here's an example from my config:

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
         HorizSync       30-107
         VertRefresh     50-85
         Option          "DPMS"
EndSection

The "Generic Monitor" is just a label and does matter at all what it is, 
except in your "Layout" section.  When you pick a monitor by name, you 
are just selecting a known refresh rate for that monitor.

BTW you'll definitely want to change those rates as they are probably 
too high for an older monitor.

The other section that you might want to add to is your screen section.
---SNIP---
SubSection "Display"
      Depth  24
      Modes  "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
---SNIP---
just add some "modes" to each of the display sections of each color 
depth ... if the modes are too high for the monitor, it will just keep 
trying lower and lower resolutions till it finds one that will work 
within the horiz. and vert. refresh that you supplied it with.

Brian Cluff

Victor Odhner wrote:
> I have a bunch of questions about setting up my monitor
> under Debian.

> Is there some reference in which I could look up settings
> based on the monitor type?

> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "MMIO"                      # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
>         #Option     "MemCFG1"                   # <i>
>         #Option     "MemCFG2"                   # <i>
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "cirrus"
>         VendorName  "Cirrus Logic"
>         BoardName   "GD5446"
>         BusID       "PCI:0:16:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     1
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     4
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     8
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     15
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     16
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
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