Hello all, thanks for replies so far. > What's the firmware on the unit? The 1680x1050 was actually > delivered in a later patch.
Yes, the FW is newer than SRSS after all, but not the latest one: GUI4.1_139548-02_2009.05.13.18.59 > The stretching is An artifact of your monitor. The Sun Ray doesn't > control that feature. It sends the pixel data and the monitor decides > how to deal with it. What kind of monitor is this? > Brad's probably right - I've not seen a monitor that does scaling > that doesn't have a setting to disable it. When disabled you ought > to see the black bands others have mentioned around the rendered > area. I hoped for that. The LCD unit is a BenQ EW2430, and with analog input it offers two modes of scaling: "Full" (filling all the 24" with my picture) and "Aspect" (scaling up to the display on one side, and leaving black bands around the other sides). There is a grayed-out setting like "Overscan" which I think is reserved for digital links. And there is no "Off", at least not for analog input. So far "Aspect" with 1680x1050 gave the neatest results, but some 30 pixels in between are still stretched. > But if for some reason you can't disable scaling, the current > firmware supports a resolution of 1440x900 that's closer to > your aspect ratio and might look better scaled than 1600x1200. Thanks, I'll try that. And I still have a slim hope that the digital link may fix up the monitor's brain about resolution too ;) >From what I tested, it does drive both 1680x1050 and 1600x1200. I hoped it might be possible to fool the monitor at the signal level by "overscanning" the frame as 1680x1080 or likewise, while having the SR2 maintain an image of 1680x1050. -- Now, for the bonus question from my original post: did I follow the correct procedure to enforce a new resolution for my DTU (i.e. passing "utrestart -c"), or is there a cleaner way without disrupting other users and sessions? Thanks ;) > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 2:22 PM, "[email protected]" > <[email protected] > > wrote: > > > The Sun Ray can drive a max of 1680x1050. > > > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Brad Lackey > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> The stretching is An artifact of your monitor. The Sun Ray > doesn't > >> control that feature. It sends the pixel data and the > monitor > >> decides how to deal with it. What kind of monitor is this? > Have you > >> looked in the menus or the manual of your monitor for setting > the > >> scaling mode? Hard to tell you what they call it because > it's > >> called different things by various vendors. > >> > >> Sent from my mobile. > >> > >> On Sep 17, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Jim Klimov <[email protected]> > wrote:>> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I am trying to get my Sun Ray 2 (non-FS) to work with a new > LCD > >>> monitor. > >>> It has a native resolution of 1920x1080, and in the SR2 > specs I've > >>> seen > >>> a claim that it can drive such resolution with a Sun 24" > monitor, > >>> although > >>> the device specs end at 1600x1200 or 1680x1050. (I think I > saw some > >>> articles suggesting it supports 1920x1080 over a digital > connection,>>> but didn't find any texts like that yesterday). > >>> > >>> I have successfully set both later resolutions, but the LCD > panel is > >>> stretching (or crumping) the image and the result is rather ugly. > >>> The display has a mode to keep original aspect ratio, but > the > >>> original > >>> 1680x1050 image is still a bit stretched to fit the 1080 height. > >>> > >>> Is it possible to somehow use 1:1 pixels, i.e. have a > 1680x1050 > >>> picture > >>> in the middle of larger display, or overdrive the SR2 > video mode to > >>> produce a 1680x1080 image (for example)? > >>> > >>> Perhaps something can be faked with modeline settings to display > >>> a 1050-height picture within an overdriven 1080-height canvas? > >>> > >>> Currently the LCD is attached with analog cable; I'm going > to get > >>> a DVI-D one next week (I need to dual-attach the display to SR2 > >>> and to a laptop anyway). Should I hope/expect it to fix > the > >>> problem? ;) > >>> > >>> Finally, the server I'm attached to is rather old: a SPARC version > >>> of 4.0_48,REV=2007.08.01.15.08. Is it possible that the problem > >>> is fixed in newer releases of SRSS and/or SR Firmware? > >>> Would I be in trouble if I use newer firmware with old > software? ;) > >>> > >>> While googling on this matter I found that Windows users > with ATI > >>> and NVidia cards have (or sometimes lack - leading to discussions) > >>> the option to avoid stretching when using smaller video modes > >>> (i.e. playing old games). It seems that the option may be effected > >>> by the panel itself, by the video card or by the driver > (using a > >>> native > >>> big resolution and painting a smaller window in the middle > of a > >>> black area). > >>> > >>> IF this can indeed be done by some standard command to the > >>> LCD panel (i.e. over a DVI link), does SR2 or SRSS support it? > >>> If not yet - please file a suggestion for an RFE ;) > >>> > >>> Also please remind me what is the least intrusive way to > enforce a > >>> new resolution on a specific sunray DTU? So far I remove the > setting>>> and add a new one with "utresadm", but for it to take > effect I > >>> have to > >>> use "utrestart -c", wait a few minutes, and power-cycle the DTU. > >>> Breaking other users' sessions is uncool, so is there a > better > >>> way? ;) > >>> > >>> //Jim Klimov > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> SunRay-Users mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SunRay-Users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users -- +============================================================+ | | | Климов Евгений, Jim Klimov | | технический директор CTO | | ЗАО "ЦОС и ВТ" JSC COS&HT | | | | +7-903-7705859 (cellular) mailto:[email protected] | | CC:[email protected],[email protected] | +============================================================+ | () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail | | /\ - against microsoft attachments | +============================================================+
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