Widescreen 1440x900 resolution

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Mon Feb 13 09:18:28 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:39:28PM -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 2/6/06, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl> wrote:
> > man gtf next time ;)
> 
> Thanks.  I knew things like this existed.  I've seen a similar thing
> on a website, but it had a ton of different obscure parameters.  This
> is really nice, just takes horizontal, vertical, and refresh rate.  I
> was thinking.  With something like this, why couldn't
> system-config-display use this to automatically generate a modeline
> for modes not natively supported by X?

You need to take the monitor's and the card's maximum pixel clock
into account, too, and sometimes they can't be detected reliably.
Even so, I believe this is a great idea if someone can implement it.

Regards,

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University  |  http://www.icm.edu.pl  |  tel. +48 (22) 5540810




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