RE: is my monitor working at full resolution....?
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> From: mikef20000@hotmail.com
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: is my monitor working at full resolution....?
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 06:45:59 +0000
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>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:03:31PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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>>> Dear folks,
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>>> I am running an HW191D monitor I got from Novatech on my AMD Duron 1200MHz 32 bit box under Debian Etch.
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> I reran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and put only one resolution in: 1440 x 900.
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> I found from some web pages I Googled that the monitor runs at 1440 x 900 at either 60 or 75 Hz refresh rate.
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> I used the advanced option in the video mode I put the horizontal range to 61 - 75Hz to force it to go to the 75Hz option (following another googled hint I found on a web page somewhere).
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> The screen looks much the same and is not really A1 but I can use it.
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> The old SIS graphics card in here doesn't seem to know what 1440 x 900 resolution is.
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> Perhaps this is a fundamental limitation here and the monitor cannot be driven any better than this.
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> I will try with the other AMD64 machine I have. This one has an Nvidia card in it...... Maybe this will make a difference.
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I did it and it worked. The Nvidia card sees 1440 x 900 resolution and handles it.
Thanks
> Thanks for your help.
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> Regards
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> Michael Fothergill
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