On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul Bransford wrote:
> Pete Theisen wrote:
>>
>> It should have all kinds of stuff in it about the dual screens,
>> twinview, xinerama and all that, which are working, perfectly. I have no
>> idea what "dri2" is, maybe nursing home diapers?
>
> Anecdote: I used to have an old dell CRT that had the wrong EDID burned
> into it, it would report as an even earlier model. This means that X11
> wouldn't let me use 1280x1024 unless I manually specified modelines,
> refresh rates, etc - and then went and specifically told the nvidia
> driver to ignore EDID data. Was a real PITA. Now that I have a 'real'
> monitor, it's nice to not have to worry about all that.
I used to use a Dell CRT also. I forget what video card I used; maybe it
outlasted several. Anyhow, its stated maximum resolution was 1280x1024. I
hated the idea of using a 5:4 resolution when everything else was 4:3, so I
kept going. I settled on 1536x1152 (manually-entered mode). It ran that
way for over a year. It didn't die, I upgraded.
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