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Chapter 3 . Getting into the Desktop 117 Your mouse might be connected in a different way (such as a bus or serial mouse) or may have different buttons to enable. Tools for configuring your mouse are distribution-specific. Try mouseconfig, mouseadmin, or systemconfig- mouse to reconfigure your mouse from the command line. . Monitor The monitor section defines attributes of your monitor. There are generic settings you can use if you don t exactly know the model of your monitor. Changing the Horizontal Sync and Vertical Refresh rates without checking your monitor s technical specifications is not recommended; you could damage the monitor. Here s an example of an entry that will work on many LCD panels: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelName LCD Panel 1024×768 HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5 VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0 EndSection Here s an entry for a generic CRT monitor that will work on many CRTs: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelName Generic Monitor, 1280×1024 @ 74 Hz HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 EndSection If there is a tool available to select your monitor model directly, that would be the best way to go. For example, in Red Hat systems, you would run systemconfig- xfree86 to change monitor settings. . Video device The Device section is where you identify the driver to use with your video driver and any options to use with it. It s important to get this section right. The Xorg command described earlier usually does a good job detecting the driver. If you want to change to a different one, this is where to do so. Here s an example of the Device section after I added a video driver from NVIDIA to my system (the driver name is nv): Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver nv VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName Unknown Board BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection