Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

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.