[Tfug] Digital widescreen

[erich]

Yeah,
       Nvidia handles DRI in a special, (prprietary) way. Gotta have my 
DRI. Did you have to give it up
for the widescreen?

                                                                                                                                                      
Erich

TR wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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