On 1/19/06, Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:42:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > just got a brnad new dell 1905fp, which mostly works great. Having > > trouble getting it to display at its native 1280x1024, though. > > Instead I seem to have it at 1162x1054, which would be fine, but the > > fonts look a little bit unsharp. > > > > Hi Matt, > > I'm no X.org master but I've had this problem before and it turned out > that refresh rates that were auto-detected were incorrect. Going on a > hunch I looked up the specs for your monitor here: > > http://urlx.org/dell.com/2e07 > > and it shows that the max vertical sync rate is 75Hz and horizontal sync > rate is 80KHz. Your x.org conf has the max vert as 76.0. Try editing > this value to 75.0 and see if that will get rid of those "out of range > errors" and allow you to use 1280x1024. > > HTH and Good Luck, > Ken > ken,
thanks for the suggestion. I've done as you suggested, & at the same time upgraded to xorg 6.9. Not sure which of these solved the problem, but in any case in works now and I haveto say it looks SHARP. matt > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >