monitor experts, please

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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?

In your X configuration

>
>
>  "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


You're using the nv X driver.  I wouldn't expect anything to work
terribly well  unless you're using the nvidia X driver from
www.nvidia.com.



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