Re: [PLUG] Re: Ubuntu 7.10 on Optiplex with i810 video

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:02:48 -0400
> From: Matt Mossholder <matt@mossholder.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re: Ubuntu 7.10 on Optiplex with i810 video
>
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:55:28 -0400, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> > Thanks, I will.  I've been updating every other day or so.  Aside from
> > occasional general unreproducible oddness, my main video problem now is
> > that in 1280x1024@60 (wide screen LCD), 5 or 10 pixes are cut off the
> > very top of the display.  No amount of auto-adjusting or fiddling with
> > the LCD has made a difference, and this mode worked as expected with the
> > same hardware under Dapper.  It looks odd, but I can live with it.
> Does it exhibit the problem with "the other OS"?... if so, the LCD panel might not be aligned in the display housing. I've had a few monitors come that way, and had to open them up and shim the panel to get everything centered up.

No.  This mode worked as expected with the same hardware under Dapper 
until I did a clean install of Gutsy 1 week ago.  All 3 other PCs 
connected to that display via the KVM work as expected.  The display 
works as expected in all other screen resolutions tried (1024x768 on the 
Optiplex, others on other OS/hardware combos).


> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:56:40 -0400
> From: "Austin Murphy" <austin.murphy@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re: Ubuntu 7.10 on Optiplex with i810 video
>
> FWIW, 1280x1024 is not a "Widescreen" resolution.  More likely
> resolutions for a widescreen display would be 1680x1050 or 1280x800.
> Both have a 16:10 aspect ratio.

You've got me there.  I don't like widescreen monitors and got this one 
sort of by accident.  It worked out well as the main use is VMware, so I 
can run the VMware console in 1280x1024, and run VMs inside that at 
1024x786 and everything fits *really* well.

So all I know is that 1280x1024 suits my needs on that setup.


> Your monitor should correctly report it's native resolution in its
> EDID info.  This should be in your Xorg log.   If you don't specify
> any resolution or timings, X might use the one reported by EDID.

It might.  Then again, the circa early-mid 90's Compaq KVM in the mix 
muddies the waters considerably too.  I don't see anything called "EDID" 
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and I know the LCD can display at higher 
resolution than the KVM can.

I should also mention that auto-adjust on the LCD is now goofy.  More 
often than not if I try it it skews the display 3-4 inches to the right, 
which never happened that I recall before the Gutsy upgrade.  If I 
fiddle around and auto-adjust on difference machine, I can eventually 
get it working, which then seems to stick.

In case it's useful, AFAICT the KVM is:
	Compaq Series 4114 KVM (spare part number 242696-001)
	AKA Apex EL-40DT
ftp://ftp.avocent.com/public/product-upgrades/Outlook/EL40-80DT/OL_DT_UG.pdf
	Supports analog: VGA, SVGA, XGA


Later,
JP
----------------------------|:::======|-------------------------------
JP Vossen, CISSP            |:::======|        jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org
My Account, My Opinions     |=========|      http://www.jpsdomain.org/
----------------------------|=========|-------------------------------
Microsoft has single-handedly nullified Moore's Law.
Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus
and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race
has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows.
___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug