[NTLUG:Discuss] Monitor list in system-config-display

Gilbert Morrow gkfmorrow at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 01:07:59 CDT 2011


Again in Suse it is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf, it might be the
same for your OS . For run level 3 In GRUB try, shift >f3, or ctrl> alt> 3 ,
been a long time since I have used anything but Suse .
Thieves come though Windows, that its why I use Linux.
On Aug 20, 2011 12:55 AM, "Leroy Tennison" <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>
wrote:
> Does anyone know what file holds the list of monitors in
> system-config-display? Again, searching the web wasn't productive.
> Tried grep (from root as root) for my old monitor's manufacturer name -
> ran forever, I finally gave up and killed the process. Tried lsof
> output but there were too many entries. Tried rpm -ql on the
> system-config-display package and found
> /usr/share/system-config-display/monitorDialog.py but I didn't find what
> looked like a promising path name in it and don't know the language so I
> didn't spot any clues, maybe someone can help here. The reason I'm
> interested is I'm wondering what is behind those selections in case I
> buy a brand/model of flat screen which isn't listed.
>
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