how to switch monitors

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:05, Ken Chamberlain wrote:
> My monitor died today.  :(
> 
> I plugged in an old 14"er that was sitting around, but it doesn't have
> the capabilities of the other monitor.  How can I configure GDM for a
> different monitor?  The graphical display was unreadable.  I was able to
> CNTL-ALT-F3 and login to a text based display and switch to "init 3"
> mode so that GDM and X and all the graphical tasks are not running.  Now
> I would like to get graphical mode working with the new monitor.  In

try (as root)

redhat-config-xfree86

I believe it has a character based version if there is no X display
running.

> case the broken monitor is repairable, is there configuration files I
> can backup to make falling back to the current configuration easier?

Yes - /etc/X11/XF86Config

and this is where you may have to make some changes if the xfree86
config can't recognise your new (old?) monitor.

Cheers, Ben
> -- 
> Ken Chamberlain
> University of Toronto
> phone:416-978-1582
> email:ken.chamberlain at utoronto.ca
>