On 02/03/08 Bart Trojanowski said: > I am guessing that you have your monitor connected via VGA cable and not > via DVI. Yup. > I have this monitor, and I found it to work better then the Optiquest I > had a few weeks ago. In my case, I was using the video-amd (Geode > chipset, not ATI) to drive the display. Here is what I saw on the > Optiquest: > > Configure resolution to 1920x1200 in xorg.conf > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1920x1200" > EndSubSection > EndSubSection So, I'm using an old tdfx chipset (3dfx voodoo3), and if I use this config I manage to get up to 1600x1200, although it doesn't look very good. I think it drops colour depth for one thing. How can I confirm the colour depth that X is running as? Also, more oddness. startx brings up my session but gdm puts the monitor into an unsupported mode. How can one work but the other not? Colour me confused...at 24 or 16 bits I'm not sure. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier [ at ] digitaltorque [ dot ] ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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