From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:43:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r58965d8a1004121143p90d4309cja66b9f291a069225@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2g30b96cd61004121038w4344cad6k8d425af2409d0d21@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, stosss <stosss@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want
>>> to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200
>>> pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD)
>>> with 1980x1200 pixel monitor?
>>>
>>> Graphics card is a (info via lspci):
>>> nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a2)
>>>
>>> With one analog and one digital output.
>>>
>>> Thank 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.
True, I was only thinking about resolution but if he is manually
forcing sync rates then anything can happen. :)
> You probably have your system set up to detect your hardware just like
> a LiveCD does.
Well like I said, if he is using nvidia-drivers he can leave the
configuration empty and it'll use the default mode which is
"nvidia-auto-select", which reads EDID from his new monitor and
configure everything properly without any trouble. Auto detecting
monitor capabilities is the default action unless you've specifically
told it to do otherwise.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-12 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-10 8:21 [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps? meino.cramer
2010-04-10 13:34 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-04-12 16:18 ` Paul Hartman
2010-04-12 17:38 ` stosss
2010-04-12 18:43 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
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