[Tfug] Digital widescreen

[erich]

OK,
          All my monitors are 4x3 aspect ratio. One of them had a 
dangerous electrical
leakage so I had to get rid of it.
          I got a Made-in-China 16x10, (That's what they call it. When 
you think of it they're
really 8x5), digital flatscreen.
          I've had mixed success adapting it to various workstations 
that I have. When Xorg-
sever comes up, It doesn't know how to handle the flatscreen's EDID info 
on any of my workstations.
It  just blithely thinks it's a 4x3 and images are distorted in the 
horizontal.
          However, one of my workstations has an R128 chip, (This is an 
old ATI), and I have
successfully modified the Xorg.conf file to produce a beautiful 
undistorted widescreen display.
This was done using instructions from the Xorg-server web page.
          So far, I have had no success on another workstation. This one 
has a Nvidia GeForce2
graphics chip. It's the video chip's responsibility to read the EDID 
info, and give it to
Xorg. However the Nvidia chip isn't even doing that. So here's the 
question: Has anybody had
experience integrating a 16x10 flatscreen with an Nvidia chip?


                                                                                                                                
Erich