You can *NOT* create a complete new monitor entry. What you did is create a customised single configuration that is directly stored in your XF86config. When you really want to add the monitor to your system you must add an entry to your monitor database. If you know the ddc entry you could even make it auto-detected! I have done this many times for 7.3 by adding an entry to the file '/usr/X11R6/lib/sax/api/data/cdb/Monitors'; but I suppose it works the same on 8.x. Regards Harry

-----Original Message----- From: DJ [SMTP:linux_programmer@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 10:28 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] How do you create a "new" monitor definition in SAX2 when your monitor is not in the list?

Hi,

During the SuSE 8.1 professional install a resolution of 1280 x 1024 was chosen and xwindows would not start. The external symptom was the monitor LED light went to orange and the screen remained blank. Internally I saw a message, "could not open the display" and I did see the resolution mentioned above.

I ran SAX2. I have a Digiview JD166P monitor. The manufacturer, Digiview, was listed but not the model. I have no manufacturer disk.

On page 123 of the Administration Guide, it says, "If the monitor is not included in the list, switch tabs to 'Frequency' and enter the appropriate frequency ranges for your monitor for the horizontal and the vertical deflection frequency in the corresponding fields". I did this and when I went on, I got the message "Monitor couldn't be detected. Don't have a monitor selected." So I was not able to enter in the resolution and frequencies without selecting a manufacturer/monitor.

What I ended up doing was selecting any manufacturer/model combination and then changing the resolution and frequency for that one and saving it.

Did I miss a step in defining the monitor? Is this a failing of SAX2?

Thank you.

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