Stephen Rowles wrote: > All, > > As per my other email I've just upgraded to an LCD telly and needed a > VGA cable to run from one end of the room where the media PC lives to > the TV on the other. I wanted this nice and out of sight which meant a > 7meter run. > > Decent 7meter VGA cables are quite expensive, but I found this on the web: > > http://myhometheater.homestead.com/vgacable.html > Replying to me own post, bad form I know... but I forgot to mention that because the DDC signals are not connected X won't be able to detect your monitor / TV and adjust properly. The best solution is to connect up with a short real cable first, get the X settings and mode details from X, then create your own modeline.
For example I am using the following for my 32inch Samsung - LE32B450 It requires a bit of tweaking as it isn't 100% correct yet (loses about 1cm off the left edge of the screen) but it is a good starting point: ModeLine "1360x768" 85.5 1360 1440 1552 1792 768 771 777 795 +hsync +vsync ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
