Many thanks for the help. The effects of my mis-guided efforts to increase the screen resolution past what the hardware would bear have been corrected.
I now have a supplementary question. There does not seem to be a man page or an info entry foe system-config-display and I cannot find a reference to it via apropos. How does one inform oneself about this utility or what am I doing wrong in my search for documentation?
Regards, Jim
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James B. Byrne wrote:
I now have a supplementary question. There does not seem to be a man page or an info entry foe system-config-display and I cannot find a reference to it via apropos. How does one inform oneself about this utility or what am I doing wrong in my search for documentation?
There isn't a manpage for it, but you CAN invoke it with the '--help' switch to get a bit of an explanation of the options. Here's what you get:
Usage: system-config-display [OPTIONS] Options: -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --verbose display what the program is doing more verbosely -o, --output= the filename of the config file to be output --reconfig don't base configuration on existing config files --noui don't show the gui, implicit when using --set options --forceui force the ui to be shown, needed when using --set options to change some setting, but you still want to show the ui --set-<key>= change the value of a specific configuration key.
currently supported keys are:
resolution the screen resolution used depth the color depth in bits most drivers support 8, 15, 16 and 24 driver the graphics card driver to use card the graphics card description to use e.g. 'ATI Radeon (generic)' vsync monitor vertical sync rates allowed (in Hz) hsync monitor horizontal sync rates allowed (in kHz) videoram the amount of videoram in kilobytes, 0 means probe
That's all I know about that!
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 15:09 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
Many thanks for the help. The effects of my mis-guided efforts to increase the screen resolution past what the hardware would bear have been corrected.
I now have a supplementary question. There does not seem to be a man page or an info entry foe system-config-display and I cannot find a reference to it via apropos. How does one inform oneself about this utility or what am I doing wrong in my search for documentation?
All the relevant documentation that is distributable from the upstream provider is available here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/
Specifically concerning system-config-display: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/rhel-sag-en-4/ch-xconfig.html
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