[Eug-lug] xorg.conf makes me want to hurt people

[Ben Barrett]

Why is it that I can buy a laptop with a 17" 1920x1200,
but I can't get that on a desktop lcd?  Just price-point for mfgs?
Maybe in medical imaging and research... 100+dpi lcd's should
be in more consumer products :)

ben


On 1/28/07, Mr O <notanatheist at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Beefed up eh? 19" wide is quite different from most 20" and all
> 22" wides. A 19" wide only does 1440x900 whereas many 20" and
> all 22" wides do 1680x1050.
>
> As for timings, most LCDs should be within a few Mhz/Khz of each
> other. These are for my 17" square at 1280x1024.
>
>     HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
>     VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
>
>
>
>
> --- roger <roger at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 21:31 -0800, Jared Ubelhor wrote:
> > > "Sceptre X22WG-Gamer"
> >
> > This LCD panel looks like a beefed-up LG1970HR (19" LG Flatron
> > Slim).
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >         Identifier      "Monitor0"
> >         VendorName      "LG"
> >         ModelName       "L1970HR"
> >         #HorizSync      30-83
> >         #VertRefresh    56-75
> > EndSection
> >
> > As you can see, I just let Xorg and the Nvidia proprietory
> > driver
> > negotiate Hz sync & Vert refresh rates.  Or, I can specify
> > them if I
> > want to -- you can see above, they're commented-out at the
> > present time.
> >
> > This is a trivial setting and I think the driver you are using
> > should
> > figure this out by simple probing.
> >
> > Noting Mandrake/Mandriva, I would highly recommend you add PLF
> > to your
> > package mirrors drakconf downloads packages from.  PLF website
> > will
> > instruct you on how to add it's package mirrors.  With PLF,
> > you'll be
> > able to watch DVD movies and utilize other non-GNU packages.
> >
> > IMO, Mandrake still is probably one of the better Disto's for
> > an
> > everyday user as they provide the PLF website repository of
> > packages for
> > easy retrieval.  I've recently tried Ubunto and OpenSuse.
> > Ubunto, great
> > for newbies who don't know jack-cr*p.  Opensuse, like Ubunto,
> > but still
> > had problems playing online sound & video files and other
> > things such as
> > Macromedia/Adobe Flash. :-/
> >
> > Mandrake/Mandriva, things work right out of the box almost
> > usually.
> >
> > My preference is Gentoo.
> >
> > --
> > Roger
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
> > Key fingerprint =3D 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005
> > 1D61
> >
> > Sun Jan 28 21:35:23 PST 2007
> >
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