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

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

Great catch!  Classic ....

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