[mythtv-users] FYI How to get Dell 2405FPW LCD to work with DVI

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:

>Just in case someone wants to get this working you should know that not
>all Single Link DVI is created the same. In particular my nice fanless
>GeForce FX5200 had a maximum pixel lock of 135Mhz over DVI:
>
>(--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: maximum pixel clock: 135 MHz
>(--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: Internal Single Link TMDS
>
>Unless you have Dual Link DVI card, you need a single link
>video card that supports at least 155 Mhz over Single Link DVI....
>The best single link cards support 165 Mhz, so it is possible.
>
>I dug a Quadra out of my box of junk, it supports DualLink DVI:
>
>(--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: maximum pixel clock: 330 MHz
>(--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: Internal Single Link TMDS
>
>It has no problem driving the monitor, but I did have to go
>online and buy a Dual Link DVI cable for about $7 + S/H.
>
>BTW I included the second line because the driver still reports
>"Single Link" with the Dual Link DVI port...
>
>-- Daniel
>  
>
I have this monitor and could run it with a single link DVI. I just needed
to ensure that the driver allowed this. The current nvidia driver does not
allow me to go the full hog, so I downgraded to version 1.0-7174
which does not impose such a pixel clock restriction.

I use the following mode line:

Modeline "1920x1200" 161.75 1920 2020 2052 2184 1200 1202 1208 1235
-hsync -vsync

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