how to switch monitors

Jeff Allison jeff.allison at allygray.2y.net
Wed Mar 10 00:19:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:05, Ken Chamberlain wrote:
> My monitor died today.  :(
> 
> I plugged in an old 14"er that was sitting around, but it doesn't have
> the capabilities of the other monitor.  How can I configure GDM for a
> different monitor?  The graphical display was unreadable.  I was able to
> CNTL-ALT-F3 and login to a text based display and switch to "init 3"
> mode so that GDM and X and all the graphical tasks are not running.  Now
> I would like to get graphical mode working with the new monitor.  In
> case the broken monitor is repairable, is there configuration files I
> can backup to make falling back to the current configuration easier?
> -- 
> Ken Chamberlain
> University of Toronto
> phone:416-978-1582
> email:ken.chamberlain at utoronto.ca

Switch to a console and type setup
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Regards

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