I got this 17" monitor from the local uni surplus recently. What caught my attention (besides the $10 price) was that it had an HD-15 VGA connector, a Macintosh 15-pin connector *and* BNCs, and a 2-line LCD display on the front. I figured it was worth the risk since with no cable attached, I couldn't test it there. It passed the crackle-hum test on the bench and I brought it home. Random button poking does not seem to be a useful way of guiding it through setup. There's a row of 8 numbered buttons (also labelled for changing width and position) and a menu button. Additionally, there is a toggle switch on the front for "BNC" vs. "DSUB" and for "user settings" vs "presets" I can get a stable picture of a laptop in its BIOS setup after a fashion, but it's only when I'm in the middle of certain operations on the monitor frontpanel. I can't get it to stick. The monitor LCD says that it's 640x480 @ 70Hz. If I get to the Phoenix spash screen telling me nifty things about the innards of the laptop prior to booting the disk, the MX17 tells me that the sync is "SuperVGA 800x600 @ 60Hz" which I guess makes sense even though it's a 80x25 character display because the laptop is nominally 800x600 unless you hit "Fn FONT" to kick it down to non-stretched pixels occupying 75% of the entire screen. It also matters if the CRT/LCD mode is one or both; that seems to affect what the external scan rate is (also not unexpected from earlier fiddlings with Solaris on this laptop - it was a bear getting the settings right for X on the LCD). So... ramblings aside, I'm looking for a setup guide for how to tell the monitor what to expect is coming in. It has 8 user-definable modes and I can't figure out how to tell it what the definitions are. I did a quick Google search and only came up with reseller sites and a couple quick mentions in an SGI Indy FAQ and a mega list of what scan rates are supported by which monitors for XF86 - less than 50 hits on MX17 in all. Thanks, -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/