Re: setting proper resolution on my lcd
On 1/19/06, Ken Wahl <kwahl@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:42:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > just got a brnad new dell 1905fp, which mostly works great. Having
> > trouble getting it to display at its native 1280x1024, though.
> > Instead I seem to have it at 1162x1054, which would be fine, but the
> > fonts look a little bit unsharp.
> >
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> I'm no X.org master but I've had this problem before and it turned out
> that refresh rates that were auto-detected were incorrect. Going on a
> hunch I looked up the specs for your monitor here:
>
> http://urlx.org/dell.com/2e07
>
> and it shows that the max vertical sync rate is 75Hz and horizontal sync
> rate is 80KHz. Your x.org conf has the max vert as 76.0. Try editing
> this value to 75.0 and see if that will get rid of those "out of range
> errors" and allow you to use 1280x1024.
>
> HTH and Good Luck,
> Ken
>
ken,
thanks for the suggestion. I've done as you suggested, & at the same
time upgraded to xorg 6.9. Not sure which of these solved the
problem, but in any case in works now and I haveto say it looks SHARP.
matt
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