monitor experts, please

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>>  Been fussing around with new flat screen monitors after my ViewSonic
>>  went south.
>>
>>  One I am trying is an Acer AL2016W 20" wide monitor (RIVA TNT2 Model 64
>>  graphics card).  It gives the sync frequencies and vert refresh rate and
>>  says that I need to set a resolution of 1680 x 1050.  So I do all that
>>  in XF86Conf and it starts fine.  But the image is stretched
>>  horizontally, sort-of like the screen.  It is like the regular image has
>>  been stretched to fit the monitor.  I need the aspect ratio to be
>>  correct because I used CAD to make things that need to look correct ;-)
>>
>>  Any ideas from all of you graphics card/ monitor experts out there?
> 
> Which X driver?
> Is this DVI or VGA?
> Also, start X with the following command:
> startx -- -logverbose 6
> 
> and then post the X log.
> 
> 

Good evening, Lonni!
Now you'll really see what a linux idiot I am:

"Which X driver?"
errrrr, where would I find that?

"Is this DVI or VGA?"

VGA

"start X with the following command:
startx -- -logverbose 6"

OK did that; I suppose you mean /var/log/XFree86.0.log  ?

It's a pretty long file;  should I send you the text off-list?

Or here is a little piece that seems to indicate that something is 
trying to make the 1680x1050 happen (but this is certainly not all of it):


(II) NV(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) NV(0): clock: 146.2 MHz   Image Size:  433 x 271 mm
(II) NV(0): h_active: 1680  h_sync: 1784  h_sync_end 1960 h_blank_end 
2240 h_border: 0
(II) NV(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1053  v_sync_end 1059 v_blanking: 
1089 v_border: 0
(II) NV(0): Ranges: V min: 56  V max: 77 Hz, H min: 31  H max: 84 kHz, 
PixClock max 170 MHz
(II) NV(0): Serial No: L640C1724054
(II) NV(0): Monitor name: AL2016W
(II) NV(0): Using CRT on CRTC 0
(--) NV(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kBytes
(==) NV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) NV(0): Monitor[0]: Using hsync range of 32.00-84.00 kHz
(II) NV(0): Monitor[0]: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-75.00 Hz
(II) NV(0): Clock range:  12.00 to 350.00 MHz

-- 
Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"