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Chapter 1 ✦ Installing SUSE 10
Figure 1-31: Choosing your monitor model
If your specific monitor is listed in the vendor list, select it. If not, choose either
LCD (for laptop or flatscreen monitors) or VESA (for CRT monitors). It is usually a
safe bet that a resolution of 1024 × 768 will be supported by your monitor.
Every Linux book and piece of documentation on X Windows configuration has a dis-
claimer about configuring your graphics system. This book is no different because
there are real dangers if you set up your monitor incorrectly. Because the graphics
card drives the monitor, it is imperative that you either configure the graphics system
with standard lower settings, or take a look in the documentation that came with both
your monitor and your graphics card and figure out the correct settings for them.
Sax2 comes with well-defined Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) set-
tings for general setup and also specific configurations from the major manufacturers
of graphics systems. The remainder of this section discusses a low-specification
graphics setup that should be safe for most people. However, you really should know
how hard you can push your system so as not to damage your monitor by overdriv-
ing what your graphics card gives to it. Most of today’s monitors have built-in set-
tings to protect against hardware damage, but you should be especially careful when
configuring the X Window system on an older monitor.
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