[Tfug] Digital widescreen

[TR]

Yes,  I have.    I no longer have the monitor but was able to use the whole
thing undistorted.    I used 10.04 and had to eliminate the proprietary
drivers.   Once I got them off the system the monitor worked right.   I
don't remember doing any thing otherwise special.

TR

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:48 PM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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