From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Nah-0003zI-Fb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48513E079F; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f201.google.com (mail-iw0-f201.google.com [209.85.223.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A927E079F for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so5101601iwn.2 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:38:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9o7j99I58f4B6ORAm54CZe1vIvK6l4BX8xOQ/jhpIxA=; b=pvK20kapqtrnCgbHzRJFjF3Mv1zODBwcboGk+tpJsbSHrOM0btxXml93ecUJsS0ahK mQhXlhXQB/KYqq4N/o8DQQQXWVQBCZj94fqpUFc98Ak2qEHbtTTmBUA8Vxq5St+uGqLL AaZ3AeZT3MVxfI4kGRI75CcOtNKSVI7vWL+NA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dKzQ5aAXBvqgGqZeUeZ52YTqcFUMjAYk/r0IS4tZM0le9wZJINxnvgGjKXEuhMitAX tNsPFciI5/P1OJSwUFUcp2+sgT8TWRsj5jfgMIeljfAHkZskOHCF8mu9tNpG1YfSC5bL LlwUYUVcPG+2Sd7NczZ7cxHQUQXILYmini4Pk= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.215.5 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:38:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100410082106.GA5856@solfire> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:38:01 -0400 Received: by 10.142.209.1 with SMTP id h1mr1844642wfg.269.1271093881333; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps? From: stosss To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ef42f595-1e3d-44fd-9c0c-6fd2fa397820 X-Archives-Hash: 15d6964a40e42c697f75be07ed51c392 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM, =A0 wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> =A0before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want >> =A0to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 >> =A0pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) >> =A0with 1980x1200 pixel monitor? >> >> =A0Graphics card is a (info via lspci): >> =A0nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a2) >> >> =A0With one analog and one digital output. >> >> =A0Thank you very much for any help in advance! > > If you're using binary nvidia driver I think it should autodetect your > monitor and everything should be fine... no need to specific modelines > or anything like that (however if you have done that with your old > monitor you may need to remove it). I switch between monitors often > and it Just Works(tm). :) > > If you use framebuffer maybe you'll need to edit your grub config to > use a different mode, but LCD usually just scales invalid modes to fit > the screen anyway. I don't think you should worry about damaging it. LCD monitors have to have the correct settings or they won't work. You can damage them. You probably have your system set up to detect your hardware just like a LiveCD does. --=20 If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson