Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:41:24 -0500
   Chris Gianakopoulos ([78]The LG Answer Gang)

   Hello Gang,

   I have a NEC MultiSync 77F monitor and a Matrox Millenium II video card.
   When running the [79]SuSE configuration program Sax, X configuration occurs
   sort of automatically.

   All parameters were correct except the modelines associated with my monitor.
   I say this because the horizontal centering was incorrect when running X.

   I tried modelines generated via the XFree 3.3.6 version of xf86config, and
   incorporated the modelines generated from that tool. Those modelines were
   proper and usable for XFree86 4.3.0.

   As I read on, I saw that X is smart enough to figure out the appropriate
   timing without modelines. Thus, I deleted all of the generated modelines,
   and now the Modes section looks like this.

Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
EndSection

   The file that I edited is:

/etc/X11/XF86Config

   I hope that this helps other SuSE 8.2 users.

     [Heather] The flip side of this clue is just as important; if you're on a
     more modern setup that doesn't generate modelines because the internally
     generated ones will do, but you don't like them and feel they can be
     improved,  then  all the old tuning tricks will still work, as will
     modelines found on the net that match your monitor more perfectly.
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(¶) Greetings from Heather Stern

   Greetings, folks, and welcome to the world of The Answer Gang. It's been a
   fine time getting up to speed in our new digs, but now I'm indulging in some
   spring cleaning.

   Taking a look at my hard disk I'm way overdue, too. Let me see... multiple
   chroot environments being used as development areas, some of which distros
   aren't even supported by their own vendors anymore. Rescue a few bits of
   actual code trees, then tarball these things off to a CD, Poof! Hey, that's
   not too bad. What else can I toast here? (BTW, has the state of the art in
   DVD burning gotten anywhere close to "just buy one at the computer store and
   Linux will deal with it" quite yet? I've been too lazy to check.) Some stray
   PDFs while I was planning my kitchen remodel... from years ago. I haven't
   even started thinking about cycling off backup tarballs yet.

   Then there's mail cleanup. I've got quite an email humor collection. There
   ought to be lots of dupes in that, but it'll be amusing reading all through
   the summer to clear my way past it all, deleting attached pics that aren't
   funny, and making a little gallery of ones that are. (There are oodles of
   gallery  software available on Freshmeat, but I probably won't make it
   public; my bandwidth isn't up to that.) While not a direct relation to how
   much disk space I'm eating, some serious antispam principles could at least
   do spring cleaning on my available time. Jim's been thinking of instituting
   greylisting on our mail server.

   Now I have to note the term is a mite overloaded. I mean, we've been talking
   about whitelists (our good friends) and blacklists (mail never to be seen
   again, whether you use the RBL/MAPS servers and their kindred or not) but
   grey, what's that? The fact is that just seeing your friend's raw address