Screen resolution advice please
I bought a new wide monitor, 1600x1050, but the closest that my video card will give is something like 1400x900.
1400x900 is only 5% off the true size and I find the size of everything just right for me to see.
The graphics card recommended at experts exchange was GeForce 5900 256MB, but I am not sure if need to change it. I will end up with 1600x1050 resolution which is a tad too small. On the other hand, the experts promised unbelievable resolution with this card, and video quality, and I could adjust the font size.
Would you have any advice?
1400x900 is only 5% off the true size and I find the size of everything just right for me to see.
The graphics card recommended at experts exchange was GeForce 5900 256MB, but I am not sure if need to change it. I will end up with 1600x1050 resolution which is a tad too small. On the other hand, the experts promised unbelievable resolution with this card, and video quality, and I could adjust the font size.
Would you have any advice?
rindi
An LCD display should always be run at it's max resolution, everything else will blur the picture. What is your current VGA Card, What Linux Distro are you running?
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the card is XGI Volari 7 (in a Dell computer), running Ubuntu
I don't know that card, but according to it's specs it should support up 1600x1200 resolution. Have you tried setting up your display settings using
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg?
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg?
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I tried 1600x1200, but it is 12% off the correct screen pixels, so it everybody looks very fat in it. I did not mention this at first because I did not want to bother you with details.
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I tried to use 1600x1050 in the config, but it refuses to use it, comes up with "won't be used error message.
I am using the PC as a developer, but of course I view internet, I want to do Second Life and so on, so it seems a good video card is a must.
Thank you.
I am using the PC as a developer, but of course I view internet, I want to do Second Life and so on, so it seems a good video card is a must.
Thank you.
Please post the "won't be used" error message in full. With and LCD display you only need 60Hz refresh so 1600x1050 shouldn't tax even a cheapo video card: it only has to have enough memory.
I didn't see 1600x1050 as a standard mode in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It may be that you have to provide your own modeline to get this resolution. This is descriped in "man xorg.conf"
This is a guess:
Modeline "1600x1050" 142.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync
I didn't see 1600x1050 as a standard mode in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It may be that you have to provide your own modeline to get this resolution. This is descriped in "man xorg.conf"
This is a guess:
Modeline "1600x1050" 142.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync