On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:30 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> I've sent this message twice before, but still haven't had any response.
>
> Hope someone can help me with this problem.
>
> Still trying to figure out how to choose the right monitor settings so that
> I won't destroy my old CRT monitor, but will have settings that will satisfy
> the requirements of my new Sony 19" LCD monitor when I make the switch.
>
> When I tried to hook up the new monitor, I got this error message:
>
> Out of scan range
> 80.x kHz / 100 hz
>
> The Sony manual says: "If you replaced an old monitor, reconnect the old
> monitor and adjust the computer's graphics board within the following
> ranges: Horizontal: 80 kHz (SDM-HS93) Vertical 48-75 Hz
>
> In the Mandrake Control Panel, I found where to "Choose a monitor"
> and saw that the one current selected for my old CRT monitor is:
> "High Frequence SVGA 1024x768 at 70 Hz"
>
> Attached is a screen-capture that shows all the available options,
> but I don't see that any of the options show what I need to choose:
>
> Sony manual says I need:
> Horizontal: 28-80 kHz (SDM-HS93) -- and -- Vertical 48-75 Hz
> with max Resolution: Horizontal 1280 dots -- and -- Vertical Max 1024 lines
>
> So, I don't see why the current "High Frequence SVGA 1024x768 at 70 Hz"
> doesn't work. Why would it be produce that error message:
> "Out of scan range -- 80.x kHz / 100 hz"
>
> And I don't understand which of the attached options I should choose so that
> both the old CRT monitor won't be damaged but the new LCD will work. None
> of the options listed say anything about any "kHz" rating.
>
> I don't know whether to choose a Generic Monitor setting, a Generic Super
> VGA setting, a Multi-Frequencey setting, or something else.
>
> Hope someone can offer some guidance here.
>
> joe@actionline.com
>
> ================
>
> The attachment that I previously tried to send included a list of about 30
> generic monitor options, but since I could not send the attachment, I'm
> listing a few of the options here:
>
> Generic Monitor, 1280x1024@ 60 Hz -- (or at 74 Hz or 76 Hz)
> Generic Super VGA, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz interlaced, 800x600 @ 56 Hz
> High Frequence SVGA 1024x768 at 70 Hz -- (This is the one I currently have)
> Multi-frequence that can do 1280x1024 at 60 Hz -- (or at 74 Hz or 76 Hz)
> Non-Interlaced SVGA 1024x768 at 60 Hz, 800x600 at 72 Hz
> Super VGA, 1024x768 at 87 Hz interlaced, 800x600 at 56 Hz
----
the reason that I haven't answered - and probably some others is that we
might not be entirely familiar with which and where the bodies are
buried on Mandrake.
Newer systems would likely be using xorg and older systems would be
using XFree86. On RedHat using XFree86, the config file would be located
at /etc/X11/XF86Config and Fedora would use /etc/X11/xorg.conf - myself,
I would probably use 'system-config-display --reconfig' (or redhat-
config-display --reconfig) to change the configuration or simply edit
the file directly.
Not knowing what monitor you are using, it would surely be a multi-sync,
non-interlaced and capable of at least 1024x768 at 60 Hz (both vertical
and horizontal) and likely to do the same at 70 Hz but it appears 70 Hz
didn't work at 1024x768 (or were you trying to use it at 87 Hz -
probably too high of a setting)?
You might get a clue from one of the other Linux distro's that is
working by examining the contents of the aforementioned XF86Config (or
XF86Config-4) file.
Craig
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