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 (i8

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

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

2006-10-03 Thread James
Grant 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 .1366 x V.

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

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: http://nvidia

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 l

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

2006-10-02 Thread James
Grant 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: Here's some p