[wellylug] Widescreen LCD with Xorg

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jedolinux.com
Wed Jan 11 09:45:23 NZDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:36 +1300, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> In message <1136876229.3231.18.camel at amber.localdomain>, Jethro Carr writes:
> >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.
> >[...]
> >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.
> 
> Does gtf(1) help?  It takes a x/y resolution and refresh frequency and
> generates a modeline for you based on a general formal for (VESA) modes.
> It got pretty close to what I wanted when setting X.org up on a new
> machine.  AFAICT it's distributed with X.org; in ubuntu it's in the 
> xserver-xorg-core package.   (For LCDs you generally want 60Hz refresh.)

Cheers Ewen and David for the solutions, I used gft and it does the job
well. :-)

I'm happy - sorry Ian, but it's working now so you can't have it.


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


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