Dear Susers, I am about to migrate a friend's linux installation to a new machine. The old one has Red Hat 7.3 and is on a pentium II. The new machine may include a Benq FP731 TFT monitor . I want to install Suse 9.3 on it. Does anyone have any experience with this monitor? Will it be supported? I googled and found a lot of hits on what appear to be linux friendly sites, but they were either in foreing languages or just commercial advertisements for the hardware. I could not find any info on whether the monitor works well with linux or not. Any tips, info about people's experience would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. We live in a semi rural area in India so the options for monitors is a bit limited. Gustav Degreef
Gus Degreef wrote:
The new machine may include a Benq FP731 TFT monitor. I want to install Suse 9.3 on it. Does anyone have any experience with this monitor? Will it be supported?
AFAIK, *any* TFT monitor can be used. If the Benq FP731 is not in the list of monitors shown during installation, then the horizontal and vertical frequencies can be entered manually. It looks like this: horizontal sync frequency: 30-60 kHz vertical sync frequency: 60-75 Hz The values for the Benq FP731 should be in the manual that comes with the monitor. The installation program (sax2) also offers the opportunity to use the CD that comes with the monitor. I have a TFT monitor myself that is not listed, with rather 'narrow' settings. When sax2 starts, the monitor often displays 'Out of range' and nothing else, so sax2 cannot be used. In this case, xf86config can be used instead of sax2; a text-based configuration utility where you can enter these values. It is also described in the Administration Guide. In one case, the screen was not perfect yet after using xf86config, but sax2 was at least visible, so I could use sax2 to further adjust the monitor and video card settings. In a second case, after using xf86config, the screen looked perfect immediately. S.H.
On 5/7/05, Sjoerd Hiemstra
Gus Degreef wrote:
The new machine may include a Benq FP731 TFT monitor. I want to install Suse 9.3 on it. Does anyone have any experience with this monitor? Will it be supported?
AFAIK, *any* TFT monitor can be used. If the Benq FP731 is not in the list of monitors shown during installation, then the horizontal and vertical frequencies can be entered manually. It looks like this:
horizontal sync frequency: 30-60 kHz vertical sync frequency: 60-75 Hz
The values for the Benq FP731 should be in the manual that comes with the monitor. The installation program (sax2) also offers the opportunity to use the CD that comes with the monitor.
I have a TFT monitor myself that is not listed, with rather 'narrow' settings. When sax2 starts, the monitor often displays 'Out of range' and nothing else, so sax2 cannot be used. In this case, xf86config can be used instead of sax2; a text-based configuration utility where you can enter these values. It is also described in the Administration Guide.
In one case, the screen was not perfect yet after using xf86config, but sax2 was at least visible, so I could use sax2 to further adjust the monitor and video card settings. In a second case, after using xf86config, the screen looked perfect immediately.
S.H.
Thanks for your clear help and to quite a few others who replied on and off the list. It is really encouraging to have such a good response. I find the people on this list more supportive than on other linux lists. Gustav Degreef.
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