I am fascinated by the idea of having a Sharp PN-K321 monitor (but it will remain a fantasy till the price gets much lower :-).
Out of curiosity though, I'm wondering if anyone out there in fedora-land has run a display at 3840x2160 and if so what video card and/or cards you used (and if open source drivers worked)?
The manual for the sharp makes it seem a bit weird. You apparently have to run it as though it is two separate 1920x2160 displays - they just happen to exist right next to each other with no bezel separating them.
Looking on newegg.com I find a few cards that claim to support 3840x2160, but it isn't clear if they can act like a dual display.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
Out of curiosity though, I'm wondering if anyone out there in fedora-land has run a display at 3840x2160 and if so what video card and/or cards you used (and if open source drivers worked)?
Not precisely those resolutions, but not far off:
mrburns:~% xdpyinfo | fgrep dimensions dimensions: 3520x1200 pixels (931x317 millimeters) dimensions: 3584x1440 pixels (948x381 millimeters)
mrburns:~% lspci | fgrep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 285] (rev a1) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
That's using the nouveau drivers. I can say that I'd avoid nvidia cards if at all possible. They've caused me no end of trouble on this machine, and I've had much better success with ATI cards.
Tet
-- "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov
Interesting and impressive. A 32" LCD on the desktop does seem a bit much in size and scope. It is configured to be a usable 16:9 aspect ratio. Very pleased to see that.
This has been an excellent site I refer to when monitor shopping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution They tend to have a clue about practical sizes and their impacts.
So the one you are referring to is listed as a QFHD... very high quality resolution.
P.S. So, you are saying the $5,800.00 price tag is a tad on the high side? http://www.provantage.com/sharp-pn-k321~7SHRL04F.htm Sadly their 'specs' do not identify useful details.
From: Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:05 AM Subject: 3840x2160 resolution?
I am fascinated by the idea of having a Sharp PN-K321 monitor (but it will remain a fantasy till the price gets much lower :-).
Out of curiosity though, I'm wondering if anyone out there in fedora-land has run a display at 3840x2160 and if so what video card and/or cards you used (and if open source drivers worked)?
The manual for the sharp makes it seem a bit weird. You apparently have to run it as though it is two separate 1920x2160 displays - they just happen to exist right next to each other with no bezel separating them.
Looking on newegg.com I find a few cards that claim to support 3840x2160, but it isn't clear if they can act like a dual display. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Joe Wulf joe_wulf@yahoo.com wrote:
It is configured to be a usable 16:9 aspect ratio. Very pleased to see that.
I can't imagine why! 16:9 is pretty much the worst of the common monitor aspect ratios. It's a shame it's also the one that seems to be becoming most widespread.
Tet
-- "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov
On 2013-04-29 08:23, Tethys wrote:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Joe Wulf joe_wulf@yahoo.com wrote:
It is configured to be a usable 16:9 aspect ratio. Very pleased to see that.
I can't imagine why! 16:9 is pretty much the worst of the common monitor aspect ratios. It's a shame it's also the one that seems to be becoming most widespread.
Tet
-- "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov
It would depend on what you are using it for.
I find that it can be useful having multiple windows open side by side for work. I have become more productive with a 16:9 display compared to my 4:3 display.
My 5 cents worth.
On 04/29/2013 04:23 PM, Tethys wrote:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Joe Wulf joe_wulf@yahoo.com wrote:
It is configured to be a usable 16:9 aspect ratio. Very pleased to see that.
I can't imagine why! 16:9 is pretty much the worst of the common monitor aspect ratios. It's a shame it's also the one that seems to be becoming most widespread.
Agree, I would much rather see 16:10.
Regards, Patrick
On 04/29/2013 09:23 AM, Tethys wrote:
I can't imagine why! 16:9 is pretty much the worst of the common monitor aspect ratios. It's a shame it's also the one that seems to be becoming most widespread.
I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment, but I'm willing to (someday) give very large, very high definition 16x9 displays a chance. My thinking is that a single 16x9 display of this sort can potentially replace 2 side-by-side displays. (I.e. you're effectively going from 32x10 to 16x9.)
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Joe Wulf wrote:
P.S. So, you are saying the $5,800.00 price tag is a tad on the high side? http://www.provantage.com/sharp-pn-k321~7SHRL04F.htm Sadly their 'specs' do not identify useful details.
Ah, but shopblt has it for "only" $4,633.14, a bargin! http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi?action=thispage&thispage=01...
It took a while (can't find it on sharp's web site), but I did finally find an online forum somewhere with folks talking about the monitor where someone posted a link to the manual pdf file (where the info about it looking like two displays comes from).
On 04/30/2013 12:28 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Joe Wulf wrote:
P.S. So, you are saying the $5,800.00 price tag is a tad on the high side? http://www.provantage.com/sharp-pn-k321~7SHRL04F.htm Sadly their 'specs' do not identify useful details.
Ah, but shopblt has it for "only" $4,633.14, a bargin! http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi?action=thispage&thispage=01...
It took a while (can't find it on sharp's web site), but I did finally find an online forum somewhere with folks talking about the monitor where someone posted a link to the manual pdf file (where the info about it looking like two displays comes from).
The Viewsonic one is due out soon, and I'm sure they'll undercut Sharp by at least 10 bucks.
Steve
$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions: 6880x1600 pixels (1818x423 millimeters)
That's four monitors on an ATI Radeon HD 6870 card, with proprietary drivers.
Note: my solution to the widescreen monitor problem is to rotate them, making them tallscreen monitors instead.
By chance, do you use two of these... side-by-side?
From: DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 12:40 PM Subject: Re: 3840x2160 resolution?
$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions: 6880x1600 pixels (1818x423 millimeters)
That's four monitors on an ATI Radeon HD 6870 card, with proprietary drivers.
Note: my solution to the widescreen monitor problem is to rotate them, making them tallscreen monitors instead.
Joe Wulf joe_wulf@yahoo.com writes:
By chance, do you use two of these... side-by-side?
Er, I have four monitors, side-by-side, which combined are that resolution. The largest single monitor is 2560x1600.
Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com writes:
I am fascinated by the idea of having a Sharp PN-K321 monitor (but it will remain a fantasy till the price gets much lower :-).
There are bugs that high resolution monitors trigger. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896170
Most current AMD/Radeon are limited to 8k x 8k. The horizontal limit will probably be the first one you hit. You can do two landscape 3840x2160 or three landscape 2560x1600 monitors.
You can run the Sharp monitor from a displayport and AMD/Radeon displayports are easy to find. You can even get a fan-less quad displayport card (ATI Firepro 2460).
-wolfgang
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