[gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-03 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: I found this from Nvidia: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=143 which states: NVIDIA GPUs can now support horizontal timings that are not evenly divisible by eight. However, such resolutions (example H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 03:32, Grant wrote: How can I see my monitor's actual EDID information? It's in /var/log/Xorg.0.log View the file and look for the string edid, you'll find lots of info that the monitor reports up about itself alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-03 Thread Grant
How can I see my monitor's actual EDID information? It's in /var/log/Xorg.0.log View the file and look for the string edid, you'll find lots of info that the monitor reports up about itself I think it's up to the drivers to output EDID information to Xorg.0.log. When I had my old system

[gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37 widescreen LCD/tv/monitor, too:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37 widescreen LCD/tv/monitor, too: I tried the following modeline with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Grant
The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37 widescreen LCD/tv/monitor, too: I found this from Nvidia:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia

2006-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 03:32, Grant wrote: The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead. This is common, at least for my 37 widescreen