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["Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

On 11 Nov 2003 at 12:47, James Miller wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, James Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Day Brown wrote:
>case]).  Many times I've been confronted during BL and other Slack
>installs with running xvidtune, and have even fiddled around with it.  I
>just couldn't quite figure out what it was doing, and what I was supposed
>to do in response.  Then, I ran across an article on a totally different
>subject (installing some distro or other), and it happened to mention
>running xvidtune to get the display image centered correctly on the
>monitor, and that this utility writes a set of "modelines" for those
>settings (don't ask me what modelines are: I have only the faintest
>notion). 

Just for a general knowledge point, which appears to be all I can 
contribute so far...

"modelines" are the lines in a XF86Config file which describe the 
operating modes of a monitor.  They look like:

Modeline  "1280x1024" 110.00 1280 1328 1512 1712 1024 1025 1028 1054

in XF86Config files.

Hope this helps,
Anthony Albert
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Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
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