Configuring the monitor in the XF86config file

[Wallex]

Why must I ask this when there should be another place to find this out?
I was hoping there would be a 'man XF86config' so that I could learn which were the options for the monitor in it, but there was no such entry, and the 'man xf86config' wasn't that useful. My file works well! almost. it seems Linux 'thinks' my monitor is more square than it really is. The width is fine, but the height is not, my whole desktop does not fit (unless I use ctrl+alt++, but then I would have to 'scroll' to reach the ends).

This is what I have in the monitor part of XF86config:
Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 337 270
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "ACR"
ModelName "9b"
HorizSync 31.5 - 64.3
VertRefresh 56.0 - 77.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
As you can see, I specified the DisplaySize in hopes that would fix my problem (that line came commented), but when I restarted the X server, it seemed to have no effect at all. What other 'lines' could help me tell Linux which is the areaof my monitor?
EDIT: Oops, the X in the topic was somewhere else. Anyway... I do have ALL the data on the monitor (it's new), so I wouldn't have a problem filling up the Monitor section with all the possible variables.

[mdwatts]

Try

man XF86Config

and you will find a very long manpage.

[Wallex]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Try

man XF86Config

and you will find a very long manpage.

Long and resourceful! I did some changes there and my monitor now works perfectly. I'd like configuring my video adapter card as well... but I don't know much about it (thankfully that was auto-detected, so I probably don't need to play with it). Thanks, It's great when one gets things working!

Fancy how I did a man XF86config before, and I thought it was a manual about the 'xf86config' program used to generate the config file, and that was why I didn't read into it further.

[mdwatts]

man XF86config still doesn't work though man XF86Config does.

:D

Good to see you have your monitor working 'perfectly'.