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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want |
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>> to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 |
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>> pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) |
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>> with 1980x1200 pixel monitor? |
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>> Graphics card is a (info via lspci): |
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>> nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a2) |
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>> With one analog and one digital output. |
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>> Thank you very much for any help in advance! |
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> If you're using binary nvidia driver I think it should autodetect your |
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> monitor and everything should be fine... no need to specific modelines |
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> or anything like that (however if you have done that with your old |
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> monitor you may need to remove it). I switch between monitors often |
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> and it Just Works(tm). :) |
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> If you use framebuffer maybe you'll need to edit your grub config to |
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> use a different mode, but LCD usually just scales invalid modes to fit |
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> the screen anyway. I don't think you should worry about damaging it. |
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LCD monitors have to have the correct settings or they won't work. You |
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can damage them. |
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You probably have your system set up to detect your hardware just like |
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a LiveCD does. |
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the |
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people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become |
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happy. - Thomas Jefferson |
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