iBook Graphics Config And MonitorsDB Entries

[Dan Burcaw]

Mark:

Does the following work:
Apple; Apple iBook; 0; 28-50; 60



On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 01:11, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I'm a new YellowDog convert, and recently installed YDL 2.3 on a 
> Blueberry iBook M2453.
> Everything went pretty well installwise - which was great !
> 
> However I am confused aboout the Monitor database setting for the 12.1 
> display:
> 
>  From YDL 2.3 :
> $ cat MonitorsDB|grep iBook
> Apple; Apple iBook; 0; 119; 196
> 
>  From Mandrake 8.2 :
> $ cat MonitorsDB|grep iBook
> Apple; iBook 800x600; 0; 28.0-50.0; 43.0-75.0
> 
> Err... they can't both be right ... can they ? - and 119;196 seems 
> really high for an LCD... guess I am a bit worried about cooking the 
> display here, what do you guys think?
> 
> Further, I found that the simple Xconfigurator setup for ibook (which 
> chose the fbdev driver) would only let me run 16-bit color depth - yuk, 
> and kdm froze the trackpad at each logout - needed a 
> cntrl-option-backspace !
> 
> However, if I used the ati driver combined with the Mandrake refresh 
> settings I could get 24-bit color depth -looks nice with Enlightenment 
> color gradients :-), and kdm no longer froze the trackpad !
> 
> Does this seem useful ? If so I can post my hacked XF86Config-4.
> 
> Notes :
> i)The mandrake MonitorDB in the the package ldetect-lst-0.1.3-8mdk.
> ii) I hope I am not posting old news here.. but I could find anything 
> like this on the archives...
> 
> best wishes, Mark
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