Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:46:29 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> Subject: Re: question about my new Dell 3010 Message-ID: <20121210054629.3756a317.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121210010017.GJ30396@ethic.thought.org> References: <20121209002330.GA8528@ethic.thought.org> <20121209052427.13ec8c89.freebsd@edvax.de> <20121209233334.GC30396@ethic.thought.org> <50C52806.1090706@mansionfamily.plus.com> <20121210010017.GJ30396@ethic.thought.org>
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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? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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