[tlug] Re: Changing monitor in SuSE 8.2

[Peter Evans <peter@example.com>]

I've just now bought an I-O Data LCD-AD171CS monitor, which I want to 
substitute for this very sick Eizo before the Eizo explodes. But of 
course I don't want to do anything that might screw up the new monitor 
as well.

I learn the combinations of horizontal and vertical refresh rates for 
various resolutions from 
http://www.iodata.co.jp/prod/display/lcd/2002/lcd-ad171cs/index.htm and 
I hope that's all I have to know, because some exploration of Sax2 or 
sax or whatever the program is called also reveals an expert tab 
inviting me to choose among

CheckDesktopGeometry
IteratePrecisely
UseFrameBufferTiming
XServerPool

and gods know what any of them mean.

I have a related irritation. Merely to look in this version of SaX2 that 
doesn't require one to be in X Window, I had to reboot the computer. 
This seems absurd: after all, common sense says, and the books about 
Linux that I've skimread seem to imply, that (at least with superuser 
authority) I can close down and reopen X Window at will. But the only 
way I know of getting out of X Window is by rebooting and quickly 
grabbing the option of "Linux -- Safe Settings". And when I've done 
everything I want to do, I don't know how to start X Window, and instead 
have to futz around trying to figure out how to reboot the computer 
("shutdown -r now", I think it is) and let it boot into graphics mode. 
What's the trick. (And yes, I realize that I'm a clueless newbie, but I 
have tried to RTFM.)