Monitor Database

scawa · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 8:09 pm Post subject: Monitor Database

When I emerged xfree and tried configuring using x86config, it refered to a monitor documentation file describing settings for paritcular monitors.

This file was not available at the location specified or in my instance of Gentoo....

Does anyone have a link to that Monitor Database?

Thanks for the help
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Malakin · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

If you're looking for the spec on your monitor just type something like this into google:

scawa · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:18 pm Post subject: Monitor Database

Been there, done that.... No luck

My monitor is a Dell MD990.

There used to be a database available which had the info available. It was on line (I know because when I built a Linux System from scratch in 1998 it existed!).
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jsubl2 · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 35

Check out the following link. It has a lot of specs on monitors.

http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html

scawa · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks. It was a great link, but didn't have my monitor. Dell may have "repackaged" another manufacturer's monitor and called it the MD990 ..... Good ol' MD 20-20..... :lol:

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theplatypus · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 44

Are you sure its an MD990 and not an M990? If its M990 this should do the trick.
http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/monitors/M990/En/spec/spec.htm

Dell doesn't appear to have any record of a MD990 monitor.

scawa · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks a thousand.... That's exactly what I needed.

My plan is to get X86Free up and play around with it for a week or so. Learn as much about configuring it, what files are associated with it etc. Then, emerge kde this week-end (I read in the posts that you might as well read a novel during it.... I plan to do it overnight Friday...)

There are several reasons for my wanting to build Gentoo:
- I wanted to optimize my system.
- I also wanted to work with Linux in much more depth than I have been recently.
- I am really impressed with the Portage packaging and update system.

It's take a while (during evenings and multiple rebuilds) to get to the point where I am now. I may as well take much more time working in depth to really learn Gentoo and Linux.

Then, hopefully, I can begin contributing to helping others on this great forum.

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