Subj : Re: Looking for a Live CD with ...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Trent Buck
Date : Mon Nov 29 2004 11:31 am

Up spake Trent Buck:
> Up spake Bob McConnell:
> > Is there a Live CD available that has a cheat option like
> > "monitor=SyncMaster3Ne"? It getting near impossible to figure out
> 
> Sort of.  As part of the boot process, Knoppix (for example) probes each
> monitor for either its vendor/model numbers or its capabilities (I can't
> recall which).  If the former, it looks up a list of vendor/models and
> gets the capabilities from that.
> 
> So you see, getting the horiz refresh and vert sync from a
> monitor=SyncMaster3Ne is already done as much as possible.

(wrong button...)

However the monitor capabilities are determined, really old monitors
(early nineties and earlier, at a guess) don't support it.  There's not
much you can do, I'm afraid.

(Caveat: I haven't look at this for a while; I could be very wrong.)

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-trent
Sabbagh's Second Law: The biggest problem with communication is the
illusion that it has occurred.

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