Need help with new monitor

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 02:17 pm, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I'm running an old copy of debian sarge. I came in this morning and found
> that someone had taken my old lcd monitor and replaced it with a different
> one that was wider. The new monitor runs at 1440x900 native and I was
> running at 1280x1024. Here's the catch: The specs for the new monitor does
> not give the min and max horiz and vert syn rates. (I kid you not). It's a
> Gateway FPD1975W 19" LCD. I changed the SubSection Display to add the
> native resolution:

I've got a widescreen that runs 1680x1050, but I think a lot of the 
difficulties may be the same.

I turned off the DDC options for both the video card and display, hard-coded 
the timings (which I found online), and used 915resolution, which is 
necessary to get some common Intel cards to support resolutions other than 
your typical ones.  Some combination of these tactics will likely work for 
you, but it's a bit of trial and error unfortunately (or at least always has 
been for me).  
-N