On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Bob Miller wrote:

> Allen Brown wrote:
> 
> > (I haven't explored whether
> > I can specify arbitrary combinations of numbers that would work
> > out the the same aspect ratio.)
> 
> Take a look in your X server's log file -- either
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  It should show
> the EDID data the monitor reports.  That includes all the
> resolutions it supports.
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>     (II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
>     (II) RADEON(0): clock: 108.0 MHz   Image Size:  370 x 237 mm
>     (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1600  h_sync: 1616  h_sync_end 1656 h_blank_end 
> 1704 h_border: 0
>     (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1024  v_sync: 1027  v_sync_end 1030 v_blanking: 
> 1056 v_border: 0
>     (II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
>     (II) RADEON(0): clock: 108.0 MHz   Image Size:  370 x 237 mm
>     (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1280  h_sync: 1376  h_sync_end 1488 h_blank_end 
> 1800 h_border: 0
>     (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 960  v_sync: 961  v_sync_end 964 v_blanking: 
> 1000 v_border: 0
> 
> I'd be interested in seeing that info for the Dell.

(II) RADEON(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
(II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 1600  vsize 1200  refresh: 60  vid: 16553
(II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
(II) RADEON(0): #3: hsize: 1680  vsize 1680  refresh: 60  vid: 179
(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 154.0 MHz   Image Size:  519 x 324 mm
(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1920  h_sync: 1968  h_sync_end 2000 h_blank_end 
2080 h_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1200  v_sync: 1203  v_sync_end 1209 v_blanking: 
1235 v_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Serial No: T61335220FTS
(II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: DELL 2405FPW
(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 56  V max: 76 Hz, H min: 30  H max: 81 kHz, 
PixClock max 170 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): End of Monitor1 EDID data --------------------

Doesn't look like there is another mode with the right aspect ratio.
Particularly odd is 1680x1680.  What were they thinking?

> > This monitor isn't paper thin.  More like 3 inches, not including
> > the stand.
> 
> That's a little surprising.  I wonder what's filling that space.
> -- 
> Bob Miller                              K<bob>

Flourescent backlight perhaps?
--
Allen Brown
  work: Agilent Technologies      non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
        [EMAIL PROTECTED]             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable
  in terms of the not worth knowing. ---H.L.Mencken

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