On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I am trying to setup a dual screen from a laptop with another LCD monitor. > However, this new monitor came without any manuals, documentation etc., I > know that it is working but I just dont know the specs. How can I find out > what its Horizontal frequency and vertical refresh rates etc. are, so that > I input them into the monitor section of xorg.conf file? > > If it matters, the laptop as such runs Etch (stable). > > Any ideas? try the read-edid package and specifically get-ided | parse-edid as root should give some good information. Also, if you have any kind of name (which you might get from edid above) you can google that. There is a wealth of monitor information on the web... A
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