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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-02-05, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> I've moved from 1280x1024 to 1920x1080 over the last year and in each
> case, while my manual 1280x1024 settings (which I had for historical
> reasons) were used on the new monitor, all I did was to comment out the
> manual settings in xorg.conf and restart X.
>
> In each case, the new monitor was then probed automatically and the
> desktop came up just fine at 1920x1080 without any further action
> required. This took me just a few minutes and was on unbranded generic
> hardware; I am not using anything specifically branded as supporting
> Linux.
>

I should clarify this part to make clear that in the case of my home
machines I am referring to the PC hardware other than the graphics
adapter; the graphics adapters use the NVIDIA binary Linux drivers
so I can use hardware acceleration to play games and do other things.

However, my main work machine is using a ATI adapter which uses the
Scientific Linux supplied drivers and I had the same trouble free
experience with that as well.

Simon.

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