Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution
2008/9/4 Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My Dell (an old insprion 8600) runs 1920x1200. A nice surprise on Ubuntu 7.04 and later was that it Just Worked. I didn't have to tweak the /etc/X11 configs at all! Configuring this screen is a pain in Debian, with no two installs working in quite the same manner. Like you, it started Just Working in 7.04, and I even had Beryl on that version! Same with my old Sony Vaio PCG-8C3L aka PCG-GRX560. 1600x1200. That is, until the display started to go (these days is is crisp in text mode but goes nasty left-right flickery. Anyhow, yes, I've been able to get video out through the VGA connector at whatever resolution the monitor would support (never tried past WUXGA) over the years With a standard Debian / Ubuntu install? Or with some tweaking? Too bad you think the 15.4 display is too tiny- I used 1600x1200 15.4 for quite a few years as my primary display because it beat the pants off the dual 1600x1200 21 tube displays my employer provided. Personally, my pet peeve is vendors who keep increasing the size of screens without increasing the number of pixels. My problem is eyesight- I'm only thirty, but I now have a hard time with this little screen. I remember when 640x480 14 was huge! Of course, at that time I was holding one of the meta keys while flipping the power switch, to boot into the 'older' version of the OS. Can you guess which OS that was by the description? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution
Same with my old Sony Vaio PCG-8C3L aka PCG-GRX560. 1600x1200. That is, until the display started to go (these days is is crisp in text mode but goes nasty left-right flickery. Anyhow, yes, I've been able to get video out through the VGA connector at whatever resolution the monitor would support (never tried past WUXGA) over the years With a standard Debian / Ubuntu install? Or with some tweaking? With Ubuntu on Dell and Sony. Too bad you think the 15.4 display is too tiny- I used 1600x1200 15.4 for quite a few years as my primary display because it beat the pants off the dual 1600x1200 21 tube displays my employer provided. Personally, my pet peeve is vendors who keep increasing the size of screens without increasing the number of pixels. My problem is eyesight- I'm only thirty, but I now have a hard time with this little screen. I remember when 640x480 14 was huge! Of course, at that time I was holding one of the meta keys while flipping the power switch, to boot into the 'older' version of the OS. Can you guess which OS that was by the description? I understand. Usually, though, this is remedied by computer glasses- glasses like reading glasses but optimized for the distance to your monitor. But if you need the big screen, why the laptop? Surely you get a better bang for the buck with a traditional motherboard/monitor setup. Especially if you want a low-rez big screen. Personally, I think the whole big-screen low-rez thing is a red herring- people are used to operating systems and apps that can't adjust font and icon sizes. Bigger screens should have higher rez and one should adjust the fonts and icons to the size that is comfortable for them. By the way, one cool trend coming out of netbook and moblin/maemo/hildon work is that big-icon maximized- app UIs are making a lot of progress- while they are aimed at small-screen devices (and moblin/maemo at some finger-operated devices), a lot of the same issues are directly applicable to larger screens and those with aging eyes. In these cases the whole UI is geared toward a smaller number of pixels. -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch. This is unedited. P-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution
2008/9/4 Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But if you need the big screen, why the laptop? Surely you get a better bang for the buck with a traditional motherboard/monitor setup. Especially if you want a low-rez big screen. The desktop is rather difficult to carry to the university every day. Personally, I think the whole big-screen low-rez thing is a red herring- people are used to operating systems and apps that can't adjust font and icon sizes. Bigger screens should have higher rez and one should adjust the fonts and icons to the size that is comfortable for them. By the way, one cool trend coming out of netbook and moblin/maemo/hildon work is that big-icon maximized- app UIs are making a lot of progress- while they are aimed at small-screen devices (and moblin/maemo at some finger-operated devices), a lot of the same issues are directly applicable to larger screens and those with aging eyes. In these cases the whole UI is geared toward a smaller number of pixels. Agreed 100% -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution
My Dell (an old insprion 8600) runs 1920x1200. A nice surprise on Ubuntu 7.04 and later was that it Just Worked. I didn't have to tweak the /etc/X11 configs at all! Same with my old Sony Vaio PCG-8C3L aka PCG-GRX560. 1600x1200. That is, until the display started to go (these days is is crisp in text mode but goes nasty left-right flickery. Anyhow, yes, I've been able to get video out through the VGA connector at whatever resolution the monitor would support (never tried past WUXGA) over the years Too bad you think the 15.4 display is too tiny- I used 1600x1200 15.4 for quite a few years as my primary display because it beat the pants off the dual 1600x1200 21 tube displays my employer provided. Personally, my pet peeve is vendors who keep increasing the size of screens without increasing the number of pixels. Six years later, I'm still using my 2002 Dell because I can't find another laptop with a better than WUXGA display. Tony On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400 with the ATI X1400 video card and a 1680x1050 15.4 monitor. I am considering purchasing an LCD monitor for use at home, as the 15.4 screen is too tiny. How can I know what maximum resolution the VGA output is capable of? For that matter, how do I enable it? I have been unsuccessful in getting VGA video out of this machine in Debian-based (Debian and Ubuntu) distros. Fedora enabled at least 1024x768 output, but I did not try anything higher. I do not remember which driver I was using with Fedora. With Debian I tried only the open source driver that comes on the install disk, and in Ubuntu I tried both the open source and proprietary drivers to no avail. Thanks in advance. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch. This is unedited. P-)
