On 1/3/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Seriously, computation of this modeline is bogus.
I agree. Use more recent software. (Which, alas, precludes running Debian Stable. Debian Unstable will solve that problem, but introduce others.) I haven't had a modeline in my X configuration file in *years*, and I haven't had to *write* a modeline in this millennium. Seriously.
And the specs for the min and max sync frequencies not being specified by the vendor is bogus.
Not so much. A LCD panel *does not have* vertical and horizontal sync frequencies. The display is digital; there is no electron beam sweeping back and forth. The only reason those numbers exist at all is because your video card has to output *something* on the analog connection, and the analog-to-digital converter in the display has to latch on to something. Your best bet is to go digital from the PC to the display; that way you're not going from digital (frame buffer) to analog (VGA) to digital (display). Failing that, your best bet is to target the slowest possible signal rates you can, as that will give the converter in your display the easiest time (many of the DACs in digital displays have trouble with higher frequencies). The DVI connector is also not a "Mac connector". If anything, it is fast on the way to becoming the dominant type of display connection on the "IBM-PC platform". I know I certainly will not connect a flat panel to a PC with analog VGA.
And I am reminded why my mother doesn't use Linux.
I suspect I do as well. Although I expect my thoughts are different than yours. :-) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
