BeOS and Linux dual boot monitor setting?

[robisc]

I don't think there is any way around this but I am going to ask anyway, I dual boot one of machines with both BeOs and Suse Linux and when each OS is up I have to manually move the screen over vertically with the monitor controls, is there anyway around having to do this, they are running at the same resolution and refresh rate?

 

[Bulldog7000]

Just a thought, find the exact horizontal and vertical sync frequencies for the res you want to run (should be in your monitor docs) and edit your config files in each OS so that they are setup with those freqs for the res you want. I had to do that for Win2K and RedHat7.1.... All is well now.

BDOG

 

[robisc]

It's not the OS frequencies that I have to change it's just the placement on the screen I just have to move it over horizontally about an inche either to the right or left depending on what OS I am running. You think that would still make a difference?

 

[Bulldog7000]

I think the placement of the image on the screen is dependant on the sync freqs. Resolutions can run in range of freqs. If it is a modern monitor, it should remeber image size and placement on the screen for the particular res. If the freqs change slightly, we are talking tenths of a kHz for the horizontal, it interprets it as a "different" res. I run my Dell P991s at 106.7kHz hor and 85Hz vert at 1600x1200. Those are the freqs that I got from my monitors' OSDs while in Win2K. So then in my X config in linux I put those EXACT freqs for the syncs.

I dunno I could be wrong, but that is my theory and it worked with my particular setup. Try it, you never know.

BDOG

 

[robisc]

Bulldog7000 I will try it if I can figure out how to do it, thanks.