Need help with new monitor

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Tue Jan 2 15:39:36 EST 2007


On Tuesday, Jan 2nd 2007 at 14:44 -0500, quoth Thomas Charron:

=>On 1/2/07, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
=>> 
=>> You need a *modeline* for 1440x900, not just a mention of it in the
=>> Display subsection.
=>> 
=>> Random googled modeline (put with the rest of the modelines.
=>> *** Use at your own risk, YMMV, do not eat, may incur the wrath of the
=>> elder gods, do not dispose of in fire or damnation, IANAL but my
=>> sister is. ***
=>> 
=>> Modeline "1440¡ß900¡í 132.71 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 901 904 939
=>> 
=>> --DTVZ
=>> 
=>
=> Attached is mine, for a flatscreen monitor running 1440x900 that works
=>great.
=>
=>-- 
=>-- Thomas
=>

Your modeline has funny stuff in it. I'd like to know what it really is 
supposed to be, but I'd also like to avoid the modeline like the plague 
for all the reasons that most people avoid modelines. Can you please 
resend it? (The funny stuff is between the 1440 and the 900 and between 
the 900 and the 132.71)

Yes, I had a typo for 1440x900 when I wrote 1440x1440. I fixed that.

I tried to change my DefaultDepth from 24 to 16 but that didn't help.

Isn't it the case that a Modes line causes the correct calc to occur in 
the 1st place and that they're not needed anymore.

Brian sent me what the sync rates are supposed to be, but I'm not sure 
what I'm doing. The manual calls for 1440x900 in either DVI mode or not 
(whatever that is). The connector from my puter is the plain old video 
connector with three rows of pins going in, not the mac connector. (Is 
that the difference between DVI mode and not DVI mode?) Either way, I 
don't know what values to use for max and min horiz and vert sync rates. 
The latest values I tried (which didn't work) are 

        HorizSync    28-72
        VertRefresh  43-60

From Brian's message:
[Page 20 of the user manual has a list of modes the monitor will do.

1440x1440 is not one of them.

The FPD1975W maxes out at 1440x900 or 1280x1024.

At 1440x900 the HSync is 55.935 (DVI) or 70.635khz and Vert is 59.887 or
74.984hz.

At 1280x1024, HS=63.980KHz or 79.976KHZ and VR=60.020Hz or 7525Hz.]


I hope I'm not boring people to death.

TIA

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