[Info-vax] Audio and video technology, was: Re: getting pixel dimensions of monitor

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00ACE71E.1879E1BE at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <ancossF5etiU5 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>In article <00ACE715.55E675FB at sendspamhere.org>,
>>	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>> In article <38b648d2-c430-4253-a60b-4b189920c08e at ia3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>On Feb 5, 8:47=A0am, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
>>>>Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>>>> On 2013-02-04, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Feb 3, 8:50=A0am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>>>>> > undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> >> The numbers come from trial and error. =A0Using them on a different
>>>>> >> monitor sometimes results in stretched images, so the ratio is probabl=
>>>>y
>>>>> >> not the same. =A0Is there some standard way to find out what the ratio
>>>>> >> really is? =A0(Probably not, otherwise one could set it on the fly.)
>>>>>
>>>>> > Uh oh, another case of aspect-ratio disease! Phillip, I wish you luck
>>>>> > on your endeavor to eradicate this instance of the disease. But it's a
>>>>> > plague. I've even seen TV's (LG's) with the picture over-stretched!
>>>>> > That means it would have fit as is but was somehow stretched even
>>>>> > more.
>>>>>
>>>>> The information Phillip needs is encoded in the EDID structure on modern
>>>>> monitors. On a modern OS (ie: Linux) that information is read automatical=
>>>>ly
>>>>> and the graphics controller configures itself as required; there are no
>>>>> aspect ratio problems at the native resolution.
>>>>
>>>>Score one for Linux.
>>> 
>>> Really?  Then why did I recently spend 2 days dicking about with getting the
>>> video to work properly when I upgraded???  It's now working at 1920x1080 but
>>> it didn't happen/configure all by itself!
>> 
>>Probably because he should have said "Score one for some specific and
>>unique version of Linux".  The Linux world is more fragmented and
>>variant than the proprietary Unixes ever were.
>>
>>In it's defense, I have installed three different desktop Linux
>>distributions on 4 distincly different pieces of hardware and in
>>all cases it correctly identified the video hardware and installed
>>complete working desktops.
> 
> And, in its (Linux) defense, my laptop does have very new graphics and, yes
> it's an HP, it has been, IMO, designed to be as hostile to anything that is
> NOT WEENDOZE.  I can't even change some of its BIOS setting as these values
> were establish with WEENDOZE in mind and they can only be changed using some
> proprietary program that HP provided for WEENDOZE.  Pretty sick, eh?

Who ever said that HP was playing with a full deck?  I have an HP laptop
that can not print to an HP Printer.  Attempts to load the driver return
a message stating the CPU is not supported.


> 
> I've finally got the BeatsAudio subwoofer to function in this HP too.  Now
> that it (the subwoofer) works, it sounds pretty good.
> 

bill

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