Wanted: 2560x1600

Amit Patel pistolfire99 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 06:33:10 UTC 2007


#1) You will need DVI cables and no VGA

#2) You will need a card that supports Dual-Link DVI and a Dual-Link DVI
Cable to work on that behemoth 30" monitor.

Amit.

On 8/15/07, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:36 -0400, Michael S Peek wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got a user with a Dell 3007WFP-HC monitor capable of 2560x1600.
> > Same user has an nVidia Quadro FX 550 with 128MB of ram.
> >
> > The nvidia-settings tool won't let us do anything more than 1280x800,
> > although the card touts that it can do 2048x1536.
> >
> > Does anyone have any clues as to why this would be?
>
> Check in the xorg.conf and remove any resolution-specifying lines such
> as:
> Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
> "720x400" "640x480"
>
> I don't know if this'll help you, but it's solved problems I've had with
> resolution limitation.
>
> Also, are sure you're using the restricted driver for nvidia cards?
> (probably since nvidia-settings is working, but it's worth double
> checking).
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
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