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

[Paul Sture]

In article <M_2dnXmpJbo0QI7MnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
 "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 2/6/2013 11:53 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > In article <kers70$msk$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley 
> > <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> >> 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.
> >
> > And just when I was about to praise how well things were going, I unstalled
> 
> Did you, perhaps, mean to write "uninstalled"?
> 
> Proof reed before hitting "Send"!
          ^

Ahem :-)

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Paul Sture