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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1882

Today's Topics: 

  Re: can't center X display            [ Andrew Sackville-West  ]
  Re: weird aptitude behavior           [ "Matt Miller"  ]
  Re: Importing mencoder into a bash s  [ Andrew Sackville-West  ]
  Re: changing the type of the partiti  [ Douglas Allan Tutty  ]
  Re: can't center X display            [ Steve Kleene 

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:24:47 -0700


From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: can't center X display


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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:06:11PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:

> On my Etch machine, I've tested the centering of the desktop under three
> conditions: running fvwm, gnome, or a VMware virtual machine in full-scre=

en

> mode.  If I set up xorg.conf for 1600x1200, any of the displays is center=

ed

> correctly (by luck, I guess).  If I set it up for 1280x1024, each is offs=

et

> to the right.  I haven't figured out how to fix this but have tried a few
> things.
Do you need help?X

I have this same problem with a 1440x900 lcd monitor. at 1440x900 it
is offset to the right by about 1.5 inches. at 1280x720, its just fine.



>=20

> I called xvidtune, which promptly said that my video wasn't tunable.  Tur=

ns

> out that my Etch install had left me running the "vesa" video driver.  I
> changed xorg.conf to list the "i810" driver, which should be better for t=

he

> Intel 82946GZ chipset on my onboard graphics card.  After that, xvidtune =

gave

> its usual display, but if I hit "Apply", even without changing any of the
> paremeters, it complained:
>=20


>   "You have requested a mode-line
>    That is not possible, or not supported by your configuration".

same problem...


>=20


> I also tried adding a ModeLine to xorg.conf:
>=20

> Section "Monitor"
>         ...
>         ModeLine     "1280x1024" 157.50 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 102=

8 1072
>=20


> This didn't cause any errors, even in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  However, chan=

ging

> the HSyncStart and HSyncEnd values in the ModeLine had no effect.  (I
> restarted X after each change.)

same problem. for some reason the intel drivers (I'm using sid so its
xserver-xorg-video-intel instead of -i810) will not let you do
this. Basically, it seems that X won't let you do anything that it
doesn't already want to do. I played around with modelines for long
time with absolutely zero effect. I think my monitor is reporting the
wrong information such that xorg won't let me set it properly. meh.



>=20

> I have not tried installing the i810 driver from Intel.  The instructions=

 at

>=20


>   http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html

>=20

> suggest that I might need some other modules (i810, drm, agpgart) loaded =

into

> into the kernel.  Lsmod showed none of those.  I tried loading them with
> insmod.  The first two loaded OK; the last complained that there was no
> /dev/agpgart.  Before proceeding any farther I decided to post the questi=

on.

>=20


> Any idea how to get the display centered at 1280x1024, with or without
> xvidtune?  Thanks.

nope, but I'm happy to try ideas and help work on it a bit.=20



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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:10:45 +0100


From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Importing mencoder into a bash script

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Hey folks



I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash 
script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into 
dvd format *.mpg files.



Anybody know how to call in just the routine without any unnecessary 
mplayer stuff?



Thanks


Can't find what you're looking for?X

A


-- 

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"


Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:22:10 -0400
From: "Matt Miller" <matt@matthewmiller.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: weird aptitude behavior
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On 7/2/07, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
>

> mediawiki1.7-math depends on imagemagick
> imagemagick depends on libx11-6
> libx11-6 depends on libx11-data
> libx11-data pre-depends on x11-common

>

> Add a few more such chains of dependencies and a lot of packages are
> pulled in by mediawiki1.7-math.


Got it... I guess it's more complicated a package than I thought.

-Matt
-- 
A-la peanut butter sandwiches!
           - the Amazing Mumford



Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:37:27 +0100
From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote:
>   

>> Hey folks
>>
>> I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash 
>> script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into 
>> dvd format *.mpg files.
>>
>> Anybody know how to call in just the routine without any unnecessary 
>> mplayer stuff?
>>     
>

> ummm.... mencoder is a command-line program. just figure out your
> options and use it like any other cli tool. it should "just work"

>

>   

Hi Andrew

Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the 
vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried 
to do that but get the error message:
 
mencoder: command not found

I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in 
order to call this function.

A

-- 

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:05:06 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:37:27PM +0100, andy wrote:

> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote:
> > =20
> >>Hey folks
> >>
> >>I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash=

=20

> >>script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into=

=20

> >>dvd format *.mpg files.
> >>
> >>Anybody know how to call in just the routine without any unnecessary=20
> >>mplayer stuff?
> >>   =20
> >
> >ummm.... mencoder is a command-line program. just figure out your
> >options and use it like any other cli tool. it should "just work"
> >
> > =20
> Hi Andrew

>=20

> Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the=20
> vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried=

=20

> to do that but get the error message:

>=20

> mencoder: command not found

>=20

> I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in=

=20

> order to call this function.


oh yeah, probably.=20


>=20

> A



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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 23:08:58 +0200
From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?
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On 11 Jun 2007, Bob McGowan wrote:

> I think that would be:

>=20

> *Martin Krafft* has been a faithful supporter of Debian since 1997,
> working as a developer and a PR person, and fielding user questions
> on mailing lists. He has experience administering mid-sized networks
> and providing user support, and is responsible for numerous
> university servers and a 40-node cluster of Debian machines. Krafft
> is currently working on his Ph.D. at the Artificial Intelligence
> Laboratory of the University of Zurich.

>=20

> From O'Reilly web page: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2325


This information is outdated but O'Reilly seems to take no interest
in my mails on the issue.

Sorry for the noise, I just don't want the above information to
circulate. If you actually care, you may find updated information
here: http://debiansystem.info/about/author

PS: Dmitry E. Oboukhov has put a lot of effort into fluxbox and
a new version has been uploaded to Debian unstable. As soon as it
makes testing, I'll make a backport. Ping me at the end of July if
it hasn't happened yet.

--=20
Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list!
=20
 .''`.   martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
: :'  :  proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user
`. `'`   http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info
  `-  Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
=20
"i never travel without my diary. one should always have something
 sensational to read on the train."
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:00:03 +0000 (UTC)
From: Felix Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: How to move the master boot record?
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:28:05 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:

>=20

> I had to add to /etc/modules a couple of modules. I can't remember in
> which order, but at first I had no mouse pointer showing at all. I
> modprobed one module, then had the mouse pointer, but couldn't move it,
> then modprobed the second module, and all was working ok. See the 2
> modules below.

>=20

> mousedev
> psmouse

>=20
 Both the Sarge and the Etch kernels have a "psmouse" driver; only the
Sarge kernel (2.6.8) has a "mousedev" driver.

Armed with this discovery, I took another look at my operational
/etc/lilo.conf file.  And I now suspect that my current entries are
insufficiently precise (and the guidance in the man-page is too
<cryptic|out-of-date>) to load the desired kernels.

Given that the relevant entries in my /boot directory read:

 System.map-2.6.18-4-486
 System.map-2.6.8-2-386
 config-2.6.18-4-486
 config-2.6.8-2-386
 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486
 initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
 vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-486
 vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386

what are the needed entries in /etc/lilo.conf that will result in
loading "Etch" with the 2.6.18-4-486 kernel and Sarge with the
2.6.8-2-386 kernel?

All advice will be gratefully received.

Felix Karpfen



--=20
Felix Karpfen
Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 23:04:24 +0200
From: "Justin Hartman" <justin@hartmanlife.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script
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On 7/2/07, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the
> vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried
> to do that but get the error message:

>

> mencoder: command not found


You have to explicitly set the path to mencoder. I also generated a
bash script recently that ran ffmpeg to convert about 300 flv files
into 3gp files on my server so if you think this may help let me know
and I'll post it here.
-- 
Regards
Justin Hartman
http://justinhartman.com
http://www.afrigator.com

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:56:54 +0200
From: "Justin Hartman" <justin@hartmanlife.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script
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On 7/2/07, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the
> vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried
> to do that but get the error message:

>

> mencoder: command not found


You have to explicitly set the path to mencoder. I also generated a
bash script recently that ran ffmpeg to convert about 300 flv files
into 3gp files on my server so if you think this may help let me know
and I'll post it here.
-- 
Regards
Justin Hartman
http://justinhartman.com
http://www.afrigator.com
Don't know where to look next?X

Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:54:55 -0000
From: Adam <aardis1@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Error trying to run apt-get
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On Jul 2, 3:00 pm, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es>
wrote:

> [ Please stop top-posting. ]

>
Sorry about that

>

> It seems like you want to upgrade from Sarge to Lenny in one fell swoop,
> skipping Etch. I would go to Etch first, after reading the release notes
> carefully. Otherwise you are in for a memorable, but possibly
> unpleasant, learning experience.

>

I believe what I did was just run an apt-get upgrade last week(or dist-
upgrade, I don't remember now which I tried first), prior to that I
didn't have any issues.

# ls -la debian_version
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Apr  1 11:47 debian_version

Running apt-get dist-upgrade also fails with the same error, as does
any apt-get at this point.  I've decided at this point to start over,
I removed debianutils and then had to reinstall gzip and debianutils
by hand.  I'm running a new upgrade now.

Thanks,
Adam



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:20:04 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: changing the type of the partition
Message-ID: <20070702232004.GA14948@titan>
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:58:52PM +0200, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:

> 
> I have   up and running two versions of  Debian.
> like this  main OS   AMD64
> 
> AMD64_Debian_Etch_4.0_dev_sda1.png
> http://666kb.com/i/appx8zyc7y0uwlkd5.png


You have another problem.  Many (most?) of us read mail with mutt so we
don't see any pictures.  Since the code of conduct says to not send html
but plain text only, unless your problem was graphic-file related,
referring to a graphic file seems pointless.

Doug.



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:21:34 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: weird aptitude behavior
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:22:10PM -0400, Matt Miller wrote:

> On 7/2/07, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> >
> >mediawiki1.7-math depends on imagemagick
> >imagemagick depends on libx11-6
> >libx11-6 depends on libx11-data
> >libx11-data pre-depends on x11-common
> >
> >Add a few more such chains of dependencies and a lot of packages are
> >pulled in by mediawiki1.7-math.
> 
> Got it... I guess it's more complicated a package than I thought.
> 


That's why I suggested using aptitude interactively so you could watch
those dependancies without issuing several commands.

Doug.



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:26:18 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: can't center X display
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:06:11PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:

> On my Etch machine, I've tested the centering of the desktop under three
> conditions: running fvwm, gnome, or a VMware virtual machine in full-screen
> mode.  If I set up xorg.conf for 1600x1200, any of the displays is centered
> correctly (by luck, I guess).  If I set it up for 1280x1024, each is offset
> to the right.  I haven't figured out how to fix this but have tried a few
> things.


I just use the buttons on the monitor.  My monitor will remember the
settings for each refresh rate it gets (so that it remembers if you
change resolution or even computers).

Its and Intergraph 21" CRT drafting monitor.

Doug.



Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:46:17 +0900
From: "Kazuhiko Uebayashi" <kzhk75@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Installing mediawiki package with lighttpd
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Hi,

I'm trying to install mediawiki package with lighttpd.

After installing lighttpd package, I install mediawiki package.

In /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf, document-root is set
    server.document-root       = "/var/www/"
, but in /var/www there is no mediawiki directory.

So I link /var/lib/mediawiki1.10/ to /var/www;
    ln -sv /var/lib/mediawiki1.10/ /var/www/mediawiki
, it works fine ("http://localhost/mediawiki" is browseable).

Is it right-way to install mediawiki with lighttpd?

-- 
Kazuhiko Uebayashi



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:56:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
To: Shams Fantar <sfantar@snurf.info>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail, error code 67.
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Shams Fantar wrote:

>> I have used Google to have the answers at my problem, but  I did not find 
>> anything.

You need more practice, the 1st page of my only search turned up this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take a look at /usr/include/sysexits.h on your system.  It lists all of
the standard exit codes for programs.  On a Linux 2.0.35 system I
have:

    #define EX_NOUSER       67      /* addressee unknown */

And further up:

    *      EX_NOUSER -- The user specified did not exist.  This might
    *              be used for mail addresses or remote logins.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


>> If I make 'sendmail -s testing sfantar@localhost', the prompt doesn't come 
>> back and there is no message. But if I make 'mail -s testing 
>> sfantar@localhost', I have an error message : Can't send mail: sendmail 
>> process failed with error code 67

sendmail and mail are different commands, with different syntax, it
isn't surprising that you see different results.

>> My php.ini for mail() : sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

Looks good

>> If I want to use mail(), I can't !

Because you are passing bad data, have a misconfigured mta, or both.

>> There is nothing in the logs.

If there is truly nothing in /var/log/mail.log, it implies that sendmail
saw the mail recipient as being local, and as such, refused to accept
the mail for a non-existant local user.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ mail -stesting asdf@localhost
 .Cc: 
Null message body; hope that's ok
/home/cowboy/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/cowboy/dead.letter
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 67
---------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Rick Nelson
<hop> kb: I demand integrity and honesty in those who i do business with
<hop> i know my demands are unreasonable, but a guy can dream, can't he?



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:27:43 -0500
From: "Nelson Castillo" <nelsoneci@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail, error code 67.
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On 7/2/07, Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Shams Fantar wrote:

>

> >> I have used Google to have the answers at my problem, but  I did not find
> >> anything.

>

> You need more practice, the 1st page of my only search turned up this:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take a look at /usr/include/sysexits.h on your system.  It lists all of
> the standard exit codes for programs.  On a Linux 2.0.35 system I
> have:

>

>     #define EX_NOUSER       67      /* addressee unknown */


Gee. I thought Error 67 meant "Migrate to postfix".

Couldn't help it,
N.-

-- 
http://arhuaco.org
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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:28:21 -0700
From: michael@estone.ca
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: problem with smartmontools
Message-ID: <20070702182821.dmj922s6go480cw8@estone.ca>
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Hello,

Having trouble getting my SATA WD raptor 150G drive smart enabled.
I'm pretty sure that Western Digital drives have smart support?

Thanks for any advice,
Mike

# smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6  
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA      WDC WD1500ADFD-0 Version: 20.0
Serial number:      WD-WMAP41527934
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Mon Jul  2 18:19:20 2007 PDT
Device does not support SMART

# smartctl -s on /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6  
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

unable to fetch IEC (SMART) mode page [unsupported field in scsi command]
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or  
more '-T permissive' options.


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Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:06:48 -0700
From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: rock solid
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> right now, the single most exciting thing that happens (other than the
> very rare package updates) is a nightly problem with my mail
> server. Its memory-bound and I don't any spare sticks lying around at



Is that why there is a missing word? After all it's only 4 bytes and you
might need it for stack or something :).

Seriously, I believe there's a setting you can tweak to reduce / minimize
the number of simultaneous spamd's  you have spawned at any one time.

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>right now, the single most exciting thing that happens (other than the
<br>very rare package updates) is a nightly problem with my mail<br>server. Its memory-bound and I don&#39;t any spare sticks lying around at</blockquote><div><br>Is that why there is a missing word? After all it&#39;s only 4 bytes and you might need it for stack or something :).
<br><br>Seriously, I believe there&#39;s a setting you can tweak to reduce / minimize the number of simultaneous spamd&#39;s&nbsp; you have spawned at any one time.<br><br></div><br></div><br>

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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:07:21 -0400
From: Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: can't center X display
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:06:11 -0400, I wrote


> On my Etch machine, I've tested the centering of the desktop under three
> conditions: running fvwm, gnome, or a VMware virtual machine in full-screen
> mode.  If I set up xorg.conf for 1600x1200, any of the displays is centered
> correctly (by luck, I guess).  If I set it up for 1280x1024, each is offset
> to the right.  I haven't figured out how to fix this but have tried a few
> things.


On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:26:18 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty replied:


> I just use the buttons on the monitor.  My monitor will remember the
> settings for each refresh rate it gets (so that it remembers if you
> change resolution or even computers).


I can definitely center that way with this monitor (Sony Trinitron CPD-G400),
although I don't know how or if it will remember the settings for different
setups.  I don't quite understand whether I have to declare a different
refresh rate for each resolution in order for this to work.  At the moment, I
only have this in xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        ModelName       "Sony CPD-G400"
        Option          "DPMS"
        HorizSync       30-107
        VertRefresh     48-120
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Generic Video Card"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    16
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Maybe I don't have to change anything.  I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
Thanks.

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