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Old 8th September 2008
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Default Change CRT to LCD

I use FreeBSD 7 and before I use LG CRT monitor and everything was good and I think I have better image and text with it
today I change it with SyncMaster N1740 Samsung LCD , I think I do not have good image and an text which part of Xorg must change for have bettet image and picture with LCD ???
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Most LCD monitors have one recommended resolution, so you should figure out what that is for your monitor and use it. You also need to make sure your video card is capable of supporting that resolution.

In your xorg.conf, in the Monitors section, comment out any HorizSync and VertRefresh lines.

In the Screens section, add the recommended resolution. For example, if your recommended resolution is 1440x900, you Screen section might look like this:
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Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 0"
    Device      "videocard0"
    Monitor     "lcd0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection
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If you are using a new enough version of Xorg, you don't need to change a thing. Just restart the X server and it will detect the optimal mode and rate for your monitor and use it.

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adamk is technically correct, but I would run X -configure and copy the xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, manually merging anything you had changed in the existing file.

I like having a file, sometimes Xorg makes the wrong assumptions..
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Isn't Xorg making the same assumptions when you run it with -configure? :-)

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Another thing you may want to do is to compile print/freetype2 with WITH_LCD_FILTERING, this uses a cleartype-like technique to improve font quality on LCD screens.
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Isn't Xorg making the same assumptions when you run it with -configure? :-)

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It's the ability to overwrite said assumptions that make the file worth having available.
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X -configure will (almost) never give you a perfect xorg.conf, but it will (almost) always give you a working xorg.conf file, it's much easier to start from that then to start from scratch.
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It's the ability to overwrite said assumptions that make the file worth having available.
Well, I didn't say not to use an xorg.conf file, just that changing monitors shouldn't require any changes to the file :-)
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And I never said you were wrong.

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And I never said you said I was wrong :-)

Yes, I think a truce of friendship is in order. What it really boils down to is that we are both right :-)

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Well, I didn't say not to use an xorg.conf file, just that changing monitors shouldn't require any changes to the file :-)
Depends, I suppose. My xorg.conf is rather complicated, with two monitors run in Xinerama with dialed-in resolutions and various options selected (including the nvidia driver) and deselected.

I've never tried simply letting xorg figure out what I have, as I suspect the results would not be particularly useful.
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Ahhh, but if you had an Xorg setup that already worked, and simply wanted to switch monitors, chances are it wouldn't require any changes to the xorg.conf file :-)

I'm not suggesting that the OP let Xorg figure out everything, simply that there is nothing that probably needs to get changed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf :-)

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If you change the resolution, refresh rate or anything else about the monitor then yes indeed you would have to change xorg.conf. FWIW, I've used and edited this base xorg.conf for six years, even when it was xf86.conf (or whatever it was called back in the day).
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Has anyone tried running triple or quadruple LCDs using two PCI E graphics card? Just curious is this is possible with xorg. I'm sure there's an open source flight sim out there that can be put to good use.
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Thanks all guys .
my fonts are not nice and good with LCD
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I check xorg conf and I see this line
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Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  310   230	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "GSM"
	ModelName    "FLATRON 775FT"
and I think xorg still my CRT
but my monitor right now is LCD
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If you change the resolution, refresh rate or anything else about the monitor then yes indeed you would have to change xorg.conf. FWIW, I've used and edited this base xorg.conf for six years, even when it was xf86.conf (or whatever it was called back in the day).
ACtually, unless you explicitly disabled EDID detection, even that information wouldn't matter as Xorg attempts (usually succesfully) to detect it these days.

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I check xorg conf and I see this line
Code:
Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  310   230	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "GSM"
	ModelName    "FLATRON 775FT"
and I think xorg still my CRT
but my monitor right now is LCD
You are not specifying anything in that section that would need to be changed when switching monitors.
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ACtually, unless you explicitly disabled EDID detection, even that information wouldn't matter as Xorg attempts (usually succesfully) to detect it these days.
I did.
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