On Friday 09 April 2004 00:42, user86 wrote:
On Thursday 08 April 2004 21:58, Greg Wallace wrote:
Is this possible? I have a Dell P793 monitor. That monitor isn't among those available on my Linux 8.1 system. I am currently using the P990 driver. I managed to get it to work, but it isn't perfect. I had to manually set the frequencies based on the owner manual. Lately, I have been getting a bit of a buzz from the monitor. I went into YAST and reduced the KHZ/HZ ranges to the low end of the ranges specified in my monitor documentation and re-sized the screen. That seemed to help some (the strange noise has gotten less frequent), but I'd really like to have the correct driver loaded. I tried loading the driver from the files on my Windows machine. The original CD is unreadable to either system, so I downloaded the driver software from the Dell web site and burned it onto a CD. Linux can read the CD, but it doesn't work when I try to use it in YAST to upload the driver under Hardware-Graphics Card and Monitor. Is there some "package" that will enable YAST to read this? Is there any software that will re-format this in a way acceptable to YAST? Can I get there from here?
As far as I know, most monitor "drivers" in windows are just plain text files with the monitor's supported frequency range(s) and resolutions in them (when you view them in the notepad). I am not sure what you are looking for, specifically, in them that you would need in linux.
I forgot to add they might also include monitor dimensions and whether certain features are supported such as DPMS and some reference to "color profiles," whatever they are used for.