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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