Re: SV: [Emc-users] How do I disable one axis?

[Ray H. <re...@up...>]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 3:46 pm, Anders Blix wrote:

> And what awaits me when I finally start the thing......... blank
> screen!
>
> My final attempt is to bring my way to expensive for bringing down
> there in the first place 20" monitor (it is the one I have used while
> up here trying to make it work so I know it works), and THEN i get
> picture..... so how do I change monitor type....... this is where I
> come to the point of finding out that NOW I REALLY HATE OLD LINUX
> VERSIONS!
>
>
>
> Boy was I glad I had an OLD book on Linux in my bookshelf.... Reading
> in it made me remember that there is a file called X11config or
> something. Anyway, I'm able to fiddle around with the parameters in
> there until I'm able to decrease the refresh rate down to what my "mill
> monitor" can handle. But I'm NO WAY sure I did this the correct way. Is
> there a program to manage this available for this release of RH? I
> would like to get that and configure this properly. On my Mandrake box
> doing this was as easy as doing it in windoze...... things like this
> makes the BDI 2.20 installations rather vulnerable if you are not Linux
> experts, and the point of BDI was to help exactly those, weren't
> it?????

The way that I do this is switch to a terminal using <control><alt><F2> 
and log in as root.  Enter the command "setup" (without the quotes) and 
select the x configuration tool.  Near the end, it has a test routine, 
keep going around this until you get a screen appearance that you can 
live with.

Hope this helps

Ray