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Just a little postscript here. I went back after setting the other HD up with PCLinuxOS and began tinkering with the HD which would not work with the Acer monitor. What I discovered was when I pasted a new file in the old xorg.conf file something was not right so when I rebooted and logged into the system as root FXdrake it was going to ignore the xorg.conf file. FXdrake then treated everything like a new install and found the right parameters with everything going smooth as silk after that. The new xorg.conf file which FXdrake generated worked like a champ when I rebooted and there have been no problems since. I suppose the lesson here is that with Mandrake distros and Mandrake derivatives it is easier to cripple the xorg.conf file so that FXdrake will treat a problem similar to mine like a new install and allow FXdrake to do the heavy lifting.

I have a new Acer1714 LCD monitor which will display in XP and Suse10.1 but which gives the message of "Input not supported" in Mandriva 2005 and PCLinuxOS. I suspect the problem lies in some config files but I am leery of hammering those files because PCLinuxOS9.1 which is a Mandrake derivative is my workhorse. I would appreciate any advice because this is the best monitor I've owned.