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Re: Widescreen X11?



On Sunday 27 March 2005 01:44 pm, Nick Birrer wrote:
> jeff elkins wrote:
> > An earlier response pointed me to Freevo which running under sid is doing
> > a fantastic job as an mp3 jukebox in conjunction with a widescreen 60"
> > Panasonic HDTV LCD.  However, the display at 1024x768 is a standard
> > "square," rather than widescreen, leaving me with quite a bit of unused
> > video real estate in the form of vertical and horizontal black bars.  Can
> > X drive a widescreen display?
> >
> > Jeff
>
> I'm running 1280x720p on a 50" Samsung DLP with a nVidia GeForce FX 5200
> based "brand X" video card. Unfortunately, the proprietary nVidia driver
> I'm using doesn't recognize this display mode so I had to put in a
> custom modeline. With a previous ATI 9600XT both the open source
> 'radeon' driver and the ATI proprietary driver had no problems
> recognizing 1280x720p as a valid mode.
>
> The upshot is that X has no issues with widescreen modes but your video
> hardware and/or driver might.
>
> Nick

OK!  I got X11/KDE running widescreen with:

DisplaySize 1280 720
ModeLine "720p" 74.086 1280 1320 1376 1648 720 722 728 750  -HSync +Vsync

Thanks for your help!

 Jeff



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