[wellylug] Widescreen LCD with Xorg

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jedolinux.com
Tue Jan 10 19:57:09 NZDT 2006


hi all,

I just got a widescreen LCD (yay!), but I'm having some issues with
Xorg. The model is the Philips Brilliance 200W, and Xorg is 6.8.2.

I want to get xorg to set the resolution as 1680x1050, but Xorg refuses
to recognise that mode. Instaid I can get 1024x768, 1280x1024 and some
others.

I updated to the latest nvidia drivers and also tried nv, with the same
results.

I googled and found that you need to manually set something called the
ModeLine with various settings, for xorg to recognize the 1680x1050
resolution. Various laptop howtos have this mentioned.

However, I have no idea how to get these settings. I have settings such
as horizsync and vertrefresh and the video dot frequency, but xorg wants
some really weird stuff.

I googled around and can't find anyone else writing about setting this
screen up with Linux.

Does anyone (not "someone", Bret! ;-) know how I get the settings for
ModeLine or alternatively, know how to get this monitor to work! It
wants stuff like the Hdisp, which I have never heard of before.

thanks,

-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php

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