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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Subject: Re: question about my new Dell 3010
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 17:00:17 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:08:38AM +0000, james wrote:
> > Are you sure you mean 1920x1280???
> > 
> > I mean:  1280*800, or 1920*1200, those are more normal.  (My older
> > portables have the former, my Dell 24" has the latter)
> > 
> > I can believe 1920x1280 might cause problems.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 	I sent a screen shot, snapshot7.png.
> 
> 	ill resend with this mail.

Both the content and the dimensions of the screenshot say
it's 1920x1080. If the phsyical display has a different
size (measured in pixels), it should communicate that fact
to X, and as long as X loads the proper driver (maybe the
Intel GPU driver? - has to match what's installed on your
mainboard or in your machine!) the correct screen size should
be initialized, at least _for_ X. Note that problems might
occur _prior_ to X due to KMS (kernel mode switching) which
can happen to have less good support.

Also from the content of the screenshot, it's visible that
the display is connected via VGA. That's sub-optimum. If
possible, connect per DVI cable, so it stays "all digital
all the time". Even though both VGA and DVI have a "data
channel" to transmit data (like monitor pixel size) to the
GPU, DVI seems to be the preferred solution for flatpanels,
especially wide ones.

1920x1080 is already widescreen. Does it match the size
description of the physical monitor, or should it be
something different?




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Polytropon
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