Subj : Re: Looking for a Live CD with ...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Bob McConnell
Date : Mon Nov 29 2004 11:54 pm

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:27:51 GMT, Trent Buck <geragohpx@tznvy.pbz>
wrote:

>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.

Except that monitor is not PNP compatible, so I don't believe it can
tell the computer what it is.

That's why I need to be able to tell it.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

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