[Discuss] Progress report on Debian install for new system

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-11-02 16:43-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> More to come concerning the following topics as I get to them:
>
> * Learn to configure xorg.conf to give me a mode with a reasonable vertical
> refresh rather than having to rely on xrandr to work around this issue (or
> if it is an X bug, work with the developers to get it ironed out by giving
> them lots of test support for the g33).

Solved that by using

Option          "Monitor-VGA-1" "Sony CPD-15SF2"

in the device section.

I used the recommended (by the Intel and xorg.conf man pages)

Option          "Monitor-VGA" "Sony CPD-15SF2"

before and that was totally screwing up adding modelines and using the
PreferredMode option to select them.  The only clue was xrandr said
that the VGA device was disconnected and the VGA-1 device was connected.

I am sure X configuration with the new RandR 1.2 extension will become
natural and obvious for the experienced Linux community within the year, but
right now all the new options in the xorg.conf file sure feel unnatural!

Anyhow, I now have access to a really good modeline for this monitor (Sony
15-inch CRT which is still going strong after 11 years of hard use), and now
I can move on to the additional install topics I mentioned.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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(lbproject.sf.net).
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