On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, stosss <sto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want >>> to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 >>> pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) >>> with 1980x1200 pixel monitor? >>> >>> Graphics card is a (info via lspci): >>> nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a2) >>> >>> With one analog and one digital output. >>> >>> Thank you very much for any help in advance! >> >> If you're using binary nvidia driver I think it should autodetect your >> monitor and everything should be fine... no need to specific modelines >> or anything like that (however if you have done that with your old >> monitor you may need to remove it). I switch between monitors often >> and it Just Works(tm). :) >> >> If you use framebuffer maybe you'll need to edit your grub config to >> use a different mode, but LCD usually just scales invalid modes to fit >> the screen anyway. I don't think you should worry about damaging it. > > LCD monitors have to have the correct settings or they won't work. You > can damage them.
True, I was only thinking about resolution but if he is manually forcing sync rates then anything can happen. :) > You probably have your system set up to detect your hardware just like > a LiveCD does. Well like I said, if he is using nvidia-drivers he can leave the configuration empty and it'll use the default mode which is "nvidia-auto-select", which reads EDID from his new monitor and configure everything properly without any trouble. Auto detecting monitor capabilities is the default action unless you've specifically told it to do otherwise.
