Re: how to find the specs of a monitor
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
>> It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the model of
>> this monitor. All it says on the LCD panel is that it is a Dell monitor.
>> There is no other information like model number etc.,
>
> nothing on the back or bottom or anywhere?
>
> WOW!
>
> okay. do this
>
> X -configure
>
> then follow its instructions for starting a dual-head system. It
> probably won't work, but what I'm after is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log it
> produces. There may be monitor information in that log file...
>
When I run
X -configure
The Xorg.0.log is about 20 Kb. Since it is a bit big, I uploaded it to
http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/Xorg.0.log_20070621.txt
The error messages that appear on the command line are
X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux kusumanchi.mae.cornell.edu 2.6.18-4-686 #1
SMP Wed Feb 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 i686
Build Date: 04 April 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jun 21 14:20:03 2007
List of video drivers:
ark
v4l
apm
i810
sisusb
nsc
ati
cyrix
trident
i128
vga
savage
via
radeon
tseng
tga
chips
voodoo
tdfx
glint
mga
s3virge
fglrx
rendition
siliconmotion
atimisc
r128
dummy
newport
imstt
neomagic
vmware
cirrus
s3
nv
sis
i740
fbdev
vesa
Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4354]
1: [0x40017420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so(R200Probe+0x121) [0x405e9fd1]
3: X(DoConfigure+0x20c) [0x80b60dc]
4: X(InitOutput+0x66a) [0x80a018a]
5: X(main+0x276) [0x806e486]
6: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0x4010eea8]
7: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806d9d1]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
thanks
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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