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

[Jeremy Thompson]

If you look at the site for the monitor

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-4221&link_number=

it does list cards that are compatible with the monitor. Albeit windows
drivers, or the dell driver. So if you guys found a way to do this in Linux
without haveing to use one of thier specific cards please let me know, or
give me a link to read up on how.

Thanks

JT

On 10/28/05, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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