Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, stosss <stosss@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want
>>>  to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200
>>>  pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD)
>>>  with 1980x1200 pixel monitor?
>>>
>>>  Graphics card is a (info via lspci):
>>>  nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a2)
>>>
>>>  With one analog and one digital output.
>>>
>>>  Thank you very much for any help in advance!
>>
>> If you're using binary nvidia driver I think it should autodetect your
>> monitor and everything should be fine... no need to specific modelines
>> or anything like that (however if you have done that with your old
>> monitor you may need to remove it). I switch between monitors often
>> and it Just Works(tm). :)
>>
>> If you use framebuffer maybe you'll need to edit your grub config to
>> use a different mode, but LCD usually just scales invalid modes to fit
>> the screen anyway. I don't think you should worry about damaging it.
>
> LCD monitors have to have the correct settings or they won't work. You
> can damage them.

True, I was only thinking about resolution but if he is manually
forcing sync rates then anything can happen. :)

> You probably have your system set up to detect your hardware just like
> a LiveCD does.

Well like I said, if he is using nvidia-drivers he can leave the
configuration empty and it'll use the default mode which is
"nvidia-auto-select", which reads EDID from his new monitor and
configure everything properly without any trouble. Auto detecting
monitor capabilities is the default action unless you've specifically
told it to do otherwise.