[wellylug] Wide screens

[Ian Sterling]

I have a Dell 2005FPW.  I paid $437 USD for it - with about $300 off -
but I see that it's about $450USD normal now.  It's a FANTASTIC
monitor and works with linux pretty well.  The only problem is that
you will either need a much more recent version of X with your distro,
or do a plain-text install and configure the modelines in your
xorg.corf file.  I posted the URL for getting this working earlier to
this list, but I can post it again.  Once you have xorg config'd, it's
absolutely beautiful.  I'm very happy I got this li'l guy.  When I can
afford it in the future, I'll get a 2nd as well. :-)

On 6/12/06, Jo Booth <thegeek at mangee.net.nz> wrote:
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> On 12/06/2006, at 10:27 , E.Chalaron wrote:
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> > I understood that WXSGA screens have an aspect ratio of 16/10 and
> > not 16/9.
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> > Anyone with one of these screen ???
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> mmm. yes, its somewhat embedded in my iMac G5 tho.  1680x1050 (not
> real 1600x1024 WXSGA).
> It doesn't quite fit 1080i, but the few extra a pixels are always good.
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