the great sony digital lcd ordeal

[Matthew Carpenter]

Hey Dep,
Sorry to hear about the woes.  I've found sax2 to be quite helpful... if 
you're careful.  It does things like set up USB mice and that stupid 
touch-pad many laptops inflict upon us to play nicely together.  I've 
had generally good luck with configuring X, but not to the levels you 
have achieved.  It's still not necessarily intuitive, and has many 
flaws.  I don't let it go near my working NVidia/GLX config without a 
backup XF86Config and an immediate diff.  But I always keep a backup 
XF86Config in about 18 places. 
Sorry, I take that back.  Recent NVidia drivers tell you to actually 
*use* sax2 to config them.  I believe they have gotten better.  Somehow 
that doesn't lessen my backups.. :)

If you understand the numbers you just wrote below well enough, I'd be 
interested in a tutorial.  They're so confoundedly absurd I don't 
understand.


dep wrote:

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>"1920x1200" 154 1920 1984 2016 2120 1200 1201 1204 1250
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>and i was *almost* there. it was doing something goofy, though, giving 
>me a screen and a half. i went back to the logfile and found the 
>listing for the maximum pixel clock, which was 170, not 154. so:
>
>"1920x1200" 170 1920 1984 2016 2120 1200 1201 1204 1250
>
>bingo! screen worked through the digital input, and the difference was 
>the difference in wiping the vaseline off the lens. just incredible.
>
>now, if i can get the frigging trackball to behave, and glx to work 
>again, i'll be a happy man.
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