[juneau-lug] Re: CTL 195UW monitors at Fred's

Bought one of the Hanns-G 22" widescreens a couple weeks ago. Nice price,
too. :)
Had the same problem; needed to add a modeline to xorg.conf. But that took
care of the problem.

Had some nasty-looking fonts as a result of the monitor change. They
wouldn't conform to 96 x 96 dpi, even using the "force" option in KDE
Control Center. Googled it, and adding these two lines to xorg.conf under
the "Device" section got that straightened out:

Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"



Good to hear from you, James! :)

regards,
-dc


On 7/7/07, James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After my old 17" CRT finally gave up the ghost (brand new from Gateway,
> May
> 1997!) I picked up one of the 19" widescreen LCD's at Fred's today.
>
> The specs on the Hann-G and CTL monitors looked identical, so I picked up
> the
> CTL because the mount was lower.
>
> Brought it home, plugged it in, and it picked up the 1024x768 my xorg.confwas
> set at.  So I edited xorg.conf and put in the monitor's native 1440x900
> resolution and restarted X.
>
> Terrible!  The result was a virtual 1440x900 screen on a 1152x864 physical
> screen.  Needless to say, things were a bit fuzzy as the monitor tried to
> stretch pixels into 1152x864, and the top quarter of the screen was not
> visible.
>
> Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I saw that apparently I didn't have a good
> default modeline for 1440x900.  X was unable to come up with something the
> LCD liked, and was using the virtual screen as a workaround.
>
> To resolve it, add a modeline to xorg.conf like this:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier      "CTL 195UW"
>         Option          "DPMS"
>         HorizSync       30-80
>         VertRefresh     56-75
>         modeline "1440x900" 108.000 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934
> +hsync
> +vsync
> EndSection
>
> (Everything after modeline is ONE LINE.  The next line is the EndSection.)
>
> Now I have my crisp 1440x900 display, with a 61MHz refresh rate.
>
> So if you pick up one of the LCD's and have the same display issue try the
> modeline above.  It might work for the Hanns-G model also.  They look to
> me
> like the same monitor, just different plastic parts on the outside.
>
> ATI Radeon Xpress 200G (RS480), onboard video using free xorg ati and/or
> radeon driver.  I do not see any difference between the two, and the
> Xorg.0.log looks the same too.
>
> I guess if you used ATI's proprietary driver you might not have this
> issue.  I
> haven't tried that solution.
>
> James
>
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