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

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

No, installed.  A little overreach of my right index finger when typing.



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