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X on laptop with external monitor

Post by David C. Lutterko » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



   [Sorry about my garbled previous post ]

Hi,

I am trying to setup X on my Dell Inspiron 3200 to use an external
monitor. I have it all working, except that I only get a sucky 60Hz refresh
rate. The monitor (NEC MultiSync XV17+) is capable of more, and the chipset
(NeoMagic) too - Windows gets 75Hz.

I am trying to add the perfect Modeline to my XF86Config so that I get
1024x768 at 75Hz. Does anybody have the right setup for that ? I've looked
all over the web, but haven't found anything ... here's some of the configs
I tried:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "Generic Multisync"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    ModelName   "Unknown"
    HorizSync    31-82
    VertRefresh  55-100



Modeline "1024x768"    65    1024 1032 1176 1344   768  771  777  806
                    -hsync -vsync
# This modeline produces 75 Hz, but uses only a tiny bit of the screen

#Modeline "1024x768"    85    1024 1032 1152 1360   768  784  787  823
                    +hsync +vsync
EndSection

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1. Using a laptop's external monitor port under Linux

: Greetings!
:   I have Linux running on my Compudyne 486/33 (4DX/33) Laptop
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