when you start X and the monitor is completly turned of the frequenties are wrong

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:46:33AM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> If you do that often and don't swap monitor too often, you can specify 
> the monitor's frequencies in your config file.
> 
> Also since you're using some xdm variant, you can just kill the X server 
> displaying the login widget at a low resolution with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, 
> once you see it (and thus have your monitor powered on :-) and it will 
> restart with correct DDC data.

This doesn't take care of the hotplug-monitor case, though (doubly so
for me: not too many monitors do 1600x1200 at 75Hz).

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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