[Nottingham] New Monitor

Michael Simms michael at tuxgames.com
Mon Aug 10 21:59:44 UTC 2009 

Whats the memory on that card? You will need at least 1366*768*4*2*2 
bits (size * screen depth * 2 (front and back buffer) which comes to a 
little over 8MB of card memory. How much memory does the card have, as 
more than 8MB in an 8 year old card (the GF2 MX 400 was from 2001) is 
quite a lot of memory. I would say instead of spending hours and hours 
trying to make this work, drop as little as 10 pounds on ebay on a new 
card that is about a hundred times better than a GF2

Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
http://www.tuxgames.com

On 08/10/2009 09:55 PM, Ron Wilton wrote:
> Thanks Jim and Matt
>
> I have tried the command suggested and got the following reply:-
>
> ~$ xrandr --addmode XSVGA 1366x768
> xrandr: cannot find output "XSVGA"
>
> I have the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 which must be at least 5 years old, so I'm wondering whether this is before the ability of setting up custom screens.
>
> I've also done the following two commands:-
>
> ~$ xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1280 x 1024
> default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>     1280x1024      75.0     60.0
>     1280x960       60.0
>     1152x864       75.0
>     1024x768       75.0     70.0     60.0*
>     832x624        75.0
>     800x600        75.0     72.0     60.0     56.0
>     720x400        70.0
>     640x480        75.0     73.0     67.0     60.0
>     1280x800       60.0
>     1280x768       60.0
>     1280x720       60.0
>     1152x768       55.0
>     960x600        60.0
>     840x525        60.0
>     700x525        70.0     60.0
>     640x512        75.0     60.0
>     720x450        60.0
>     640x400        60.0
>     576x432        75.0
>     640x384        60.0
>     576x384        55.0
>     512x384        75.0     70.0     60.0
>     416x312        75.0
>     400x300        75.0     72.0     60.0     56.0
>     320x240        75.0     73.0     60.0
> ~$ xrandr -s 1366x768
> Size 1366x768 not found in available modes
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
>
> --- On Mon, 10/8/09, Jim Moore<jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Jim Moore<jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] New Monitor
> To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group"<nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Monday, 10 August, 2009, 12:07 AM
>
> start with:
>
> xrandr --addmode XSVGA
>   1366x768
>
> then:
>
> xrandr --output XSVGA --mode 1366×768 --rate 60
>
> Note these are nonpersistent commands (ie they'll only last through
> the current session). You might want to add them to xorg.conf (read
> the xorg.conf file on how to add xrandr lines to the configuration),
> or you can use ~/.xprofile (just append those two xrandr lines to the
> file; create an empty xprofile if one doesn't already exist, xorg will
> use it if it exists in your home folder).
>
> As mentioned (kudos to Matthew), ATI and NVidia both have GUI
> configurations in which setting up custom screens is elementary. I
> know from experience (with SuSE Pro 9.3) that the NVidia one does
> require you to set the pitch or it'll do weird things with weird
> screens (apparently the hardware manufacturers never thought to add
> 16:9 aspect screens to the default list) /before/ you can add the new
> screen resolution.
>
> On 8/9/09, Matthew Tompsett
>   <matthewbpt at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> What kind of video card do you have? If it's an nvidia then you can use the
>> nvidia xconfig utility to change the resolution and refresh rates, if not
>> then you may have to use the xrandr command line program, google it I can't
>> quite remember how to use it but there are guides you can follow,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> 2009/8/9 Ron Wilton<ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk>
>>
>>> Thanks for your reply, Jim.
>>>
>>> How do I make the suggested changes. In Ubuntu there's a Screen Resolution
>>> programme, but this does not allow changing the pitch and entering of the
>>> actual screen size.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>   Ron
>>> --- On *Sat, 8/8/09, Jim Moore<jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Jim Moore<jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] New Monitor
>>> To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group"<nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>> Date: Saturday, 8 August, 2009, 7:48 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> At a glance, your monitor native frequency is 1366x768 (which isn't
>>> bad considering it's an uberbudget monitor but still seems a little
>>> low for the screen size - I have a 17" standard ratio which is
>   native
>>> at 1600x1200 and that's a 5 year old HP), so with a bit of number
>>> fiddling, you need to set up your monitor geometry manually (as is
>>> usually the case on widescreens) with the following:
>>>
>>> pitch: 0.300mm
>>> measure horizontal and vertical panel dimensions with a tape, you'll
>>> need these numbers for setup as well, because the pixel dimensions
>>> suggest rectangular pixels rather than square - again unusual for a
>>> compiter monitor and bound to make life interesting - what you
>>> actually have there is a HDTV panel with a VGA connector.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> TLP
>>>
>>> On 8/8/09, Ron Wilton
>>> <ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk<http://mc/compose?to=ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello All
>>>>
>>>> My 4 x 3 monitor went on me earlier this week.
>>>>
>>>> I've just bought a widescreen monitor hoping that it would be alright.
>>>> It
>>>> works okay, except that the picture quality is not very good. Any ideas
>>> on
>>>> what I can do? I've got an acer X193HQ and an using Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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