Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Barry
> On 17 Nov 2024, at 12:17, lejeczek via users > wrote: > > Both monitors are directly connected to the same one Radeon 6600 and both via > Display Ports. Only the more expensive dell monitors are colour calibrated. I buy such monitors and they come with the colour calibrat

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 13:16 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > Color's "Preset Modes" was where I started - none of them matched. > The closest match is - one with cooler whites: standard, the one with > warmer whites: Cool - but still visibly different. > Both monitor

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 12:09 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and colors are > different, one has whites cooler whereas the second's whites (thus > other colors) are warmer. That was the bane of anyone involved in video

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread lejeczek via users
On 17/11/2024 12:48, Will McDonald wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 11:10, lejeczek via users wrote: It's been a while and I've changed my hardware setup - which now makes it even more puzzling. Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and color

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Will McDonald
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 11:10, lejeczek via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > It's been a while and I've changed my hardware setup - which now makes it > even more puzzling. > Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and colors are

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread lejeczek via users
land, so you might have to chose Xorg at login.   Once you have acceptable profiles Wayland should use them. It's been a while and I've changed my hardware setup - which now makes it even more puzzling. Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and colors are d

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 12:19 PM lejeczek via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi guys > > How do we load & tweak color profiles in Fedora (without using external > sensor-devices) ? > My Lenovo Thinkbook built-in screen has different (and not adjustable in > BIOS) color temperature

color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-01-05 Thread lejeczek via users
Hi guys How do we load & tweak color profiles in Fedora (without using external sensor-devices) ? My Lenovo Thinkbook built-in screen has different (and not adjustable in BIOS) color temperature  what my external DELL shows - they are quite different thus annoying. many thanks, L.--

Re: Monitors

2023-10-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. > >One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. > >Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP > >I have to replace the VGA

Re: Monitors

2023-10-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. What would be the best option: 1) Add a DP

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
the second set ouptuts to monitors then you are likely already close to 1/2 way to the outright cost of the 4k device. And the new 4k tv (monitors are expensive, tv's are not) simplifies everything.Sometimes using what you have is way more expensive in time and sometimes money. On Fri,

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > so you want a dual-dual-monitor setup with a KVM. > > Have you considered getting a single large 4k monitor/tv instead of 2 > smaller ones(assuming the smaller ones are 1080p)? That would > simplify a lot of what you would need to buy. Sure, but I already have the 2 moni

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Lukas Middendorf
Hello, On 06/10/2023 09:47, Patrick Dupre wrote: I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. What would be the best option: 1) Add a DP video card on the

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
and I have the usable resolution/space of 4 22" 1080P monitors. The color on my TV is decent and it is a cheap 4k tv ($220 + tax), so may not be much more expensive that the hardware needed to implement the above. I use the TV input/remote switch + a USB keyboard-mouse switch to switch co

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
oger Heflin" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: Monitors > > ok. that makes a bit more sense. And by KVM he means just > keyboard-mouse since he has 2 monitors and does not need the video > and/or the video is separated by monitor. > >

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Barry
> On 6 Oct 2023, at 08:47, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. > Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP Use a DVI KVM (check it allows EDID passthru). You can passively convert DP to DVI with a c

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
ok. that makes a bit more sense. And by KVM he means just keyboard-mouse since he has 2 monitors and does not need the video and/or the video is separated by monitor. I am not sure what he is trying to do given this setup. Depending on what he is trying to do, there may be easier ways to do

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 05:55 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I don't believe KVM allows separation by video port.  I think you can > only give a KVM the entire card.  And even if KVM allowed you to give > it a single port I think X/Wayland assumes total control of the card > and cards ram (I could be w

Re: Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
to install a KVM for 2 monitors. > One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. > Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP > I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. > What would be the best option: > 1) Add a DP video card on the PCIExpress bus (and use the DVI of the >

Monitors

2023-10-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. What would be the best option: 1) Add a DP video card on the PCIExpress bus (and use the DVI of the

Re: Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

2020-05-17 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 17 May 2020 08:24:30 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > Since the logs are going to the journal now I just remembered where > the log was and locked and unlocked my system and copied the delta... > Why in the heck is it doing all that just for a lock/unlock sequence? > > May 17 08:19:01 /usr/li

Re: Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

2020-05-17 Thread Richard Shaw
Since the logs are going to the journal now I just remembered where the log was and locked and unlocked my system and copied the delta... Why in the heck is it doing all that just for a lock/unlock sequence? May 17 08:19:01 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2326]: (II) AMDGPU(0): EDID vendor "GSM", prod

Re: Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

2020-05-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 15 May 2020, at 13:31, Richard Shaw wrote: > > After upgrading to Fedora 32 my monitors no longer turn off after timeout or > locking the display. > > Interestingly, they do for a few seconds after I lock the screen but then > turn back on. The display i

Fedora 32: Monitors not sleeping?

2020-05-15 Thread Richard Shaw
After upgrading to Fedora 32 my monitors no longer turn off after timeout or locking the display. Interestingly, they do for a few seconds after I lock the screen but then turn back on. The display is blank/black but the backlighting is definitely on. AMD RX580 and a LG & Acer 1080p IPS moni

Dual monitors not always powering off

2020-05-05 Thread Dave Ulrick
Hi, I have dual monitors configured on a Fedora 30 PC. I'm using the XFCE4 desktop. Using xscreensaver I've configured the monitors to be powered off after 15 minutes of inactivity. 90+% of the time the monitors do get powered off, but every once in a while I'll come back t

6 monitors/2 nonSLI nvidia GPUs setup

2018-04-23 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Did anyone succeded in using multiple non SLI nvidia gpus in fedora? (or any other linux?) I have a configuration of 2 1050 cards with 3 monitors each and i can configure only 1 screen per gpu. the problem is that the second screen (3 monitors on second gpu) is not accesible for

Re: Show Gnome Alt-Tab window on all monitors

2018-03-22 Thread Laverne Schrock
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 03/21/2018 06:23 AM, Laverne Schrock wrote: > >> When I press Alt-Tab, the window switcher only appears on my primary >> monitor. >> >> Is it possible to make the window switcher appear on all the moni

Re: Show Gnome Alt-Tab window on all monitors

2018-03-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/21/2018 06:23 AM, Laverne Schrock wrote: When I press Alt-Tab, the window switcher only appears on my primary monitor. Is it possible to make the window switcher appear on all the monitors? Perhaps there is some extension that I failed to find which does this? How would that be

Show Gnome Alt-Tab window on all monitors

2018-03-21 Thread Laverne Schrock
Hi, I'm running Fedora 27 with Gnome and a dual monitor setup. When I press Alt-Tab, the window switcher only appears on my primary monitor. Is it possible to make the window switcher appear on all the monitors? Perhaps there is some extension that I failed to find which does this? T

Re: more than two monitors not working on nouveau, but works on proprietary

2016-10-17 Thread Doug
had to install the nvidia proprietary driver to be able to use more than 2 monitors on my GTX960 (if I connected more than 2 it locked up the machine). Now with the switch to Wayland in f25 the closed source driver doesn't seem to be an option, so I need to see if it's possible to get it working

Re: more than two monitors not working on nouveau, but works on proprietary

2016-10-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
river to be able to use more than 2 > monitors on my GTX960 (if I connected more than 2 it locked up the machine). > > Now with the switch to Wayland in f25 the closed source driver doesn't seem > to be an option, so I need to see if it's possible to get it working under > nouv

more than two monitors not working on nouveau, but works on proprietary

2016-10-17 Thread patrick korsnick
Hi all, Now that I'm loving f25beta so much and refuse to go back to f24 I'm forced to address a problem I've had for some time. Up through f24 I've had to install the nvidia proprietary driver to be able to use more than 2 monitors on my GTX960 (if I connected more tha

Alt tab with 2+ monitors

2016-10-12 Thread Cássio Pereira
So, Ubuntu handles alt+tab correctly when you have more than one monitor. It displays the app switcher on the window you're currently active on. Fedora always displays the app switcher on the primary monitor. Any way to display it on all monitors or, ideally, only on the one you're

Re: Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-24 Thread Rikke D. Giles
On 12/24/2015 06:32:07 AM, Justin Moore wrote: > Thanks. Are the monitors using the DisplayPort and running at 60Hz? > How many monitors and video cards does each system have? I used the MHL ports for the Viewsonic VX2475's. They are at 67.5Khz H and 30 Hz V, pixel clock i

Re: Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:25:25 -0500 Justin Moore wrote: > Thanks. Which version of the nvidia drivers are you using? Do you ever have > problems where the monitor loses the displayport signal and you have to > power cycle the monitor and/or computer? It looks like the U28E590 is the > newer version

Re: Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-24 Thread Justin Moore
> > > Does anyone have Fedora 23 working with a 4K monitor? > > Yes, I just recently set up two systems with 4k monitors. They are using > Viewsonic VX2475 series monitors. > > > I'm running Fedora 23 with a GeForce 750 Ti card using the NVidia > drivers. Does

Re: Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-24 Thread Justin Moore
> > > I'm running Fedora > > 23 with a GeForce 750 Ti card using the NVidia drivers. > > The very card I'm using at work with my Samsung U28D590 monitor > and the display port output. (I never got the cheesy audio > connection on the Samsung to work, but I don't really need it > with speakers plugg

Re: Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-23 Thread Rikke D. Giles
On 12/23/2015 03:24:15 PM, Justin Moore wrote: > Does anyone have Fedora 23 working with a 4K monitor? Yes, I just recently set up two systems with 4k monitors. They are using Viewsonic VX2475 series monitors. > I'm running Fedora 23 with a GeForce 750 Ti card using the NVi

Re: Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:24:15 -0500 Justin Moore wrote: > I'm running Fedora > 23 with a GeForce 750 Ti card using the NVidia drivers. The very card I'm using at work with my Samsung U28D590 monitor and the display port output. (I never got the cheesy audio connection on the Samsung to work, but I

Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?

2015-12-23 Thread Justin Moore
Does anyone have Fedora 23 working with a 4K monitor? Last week I got an Asus PB287Q monitor, but got bit by the "hardware loses signal when monitor goes into sleep" issue. I'm returning that monitor and would like to get another one, but am hoping to find a good success story. I'm running Fedora 2

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-18 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 12:11 -0500, SternData wrote: > Why oh why is this so hard? > > It used to work, pre-F22. I've not used anything beyond Fedora 20, yet. But the settings for my login have never been applied to anything once I've logged out. And why should they, I'm not logged in. It coul

Re: turn off monitors when logged out [solved]

2015-06-17 Thread SternData
not sure why, but it's solved. dnf remove "gnome-screensaver*" "xscreensaver*" reboot dnf install "xscreensaver*" now when I logout, the screen blanks and the monitors go into suspend/poweroff mode in about 30 seconds. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@l

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread Temlakos
On 06/17/2015 01:11 PM, SternData wrote: On 06/17/2015 11:08 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: As far as I know, the login screen runs as a different user (gdb, for instance, runs as user "gdm"). Since all the settings for power management, screensaver, etc are per-user settings, to get changes to stick,

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread SternData
On 06/17/2015 11:08 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > As far as I know, the login screen runs as a different user > (gdb, for instance, runs as user "gdm"). > > Since all the settings for power management, screensaver, etc > are per-user settings, to get changes to stick, you need to get > that user to hav

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:08:20 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > (gdb, for instance, runs as user "gdm"). gdb => gdm (don't know why my fingers produced gdb here). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread Tom Horsley
As far as I know, the login screen runs as a different user (gdb, for instance, runs as user "gdm"). Since all the settings for power management, screensaver, etc are per-user settings, to get changes to stick, you need to get that user to have the right settings (which is non-trivial since the se

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread SternData
On 06/17/2015 08:26 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 07:33:53AM -0500, SternData wrote: >> On 06/17/2015 04:58 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:41:45PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >>>> The monitors turn off normally when I'm log

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 07:33:53AM -0500, SternData wrote: > On 06/17/2015 04:58 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:41:45PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > >> The monitors turn off normally when I'm logged in and idle for 20 > >> minutes but since

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread SternData
On 06/17/2015 04:58 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:41:45PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> The monitors turn off normally when I'm logged in and idle for 20 >> minutes but since the upgrade to F22, the monitors stay on when I'm >> logged out. >&g

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 11:58 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > If you are using Gnome, your desktop settings should also apply to > gdm. Not if you're logged out, it has its own settings, unless something has changed more recently. You could copy your own settings into the gdm user home directory. That

Re: turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:41:45PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > The monitors turn off normally when I'm logged in and idle for 20 > minutes but since the upgrade to F22, the monitors stay on when I'm > logged out. > > Where do I tell gdm to turn off the screens if the

turn off monitors when logged out

2015-06-14 Thread Steven Stern
The monitors turn off normally when I'm logged in and idle for 20 minutes but since the upgrade to F22, the monitors stay on when I'm logged out. Where do I tell gdm to turn off the screens if the system is idle for more than X minutes while logged out? -- -- Steve -- users mailing

Anyone else having fun with multiple monitors on Fed22 KDE?

2015-05-30 Thread Gary Baribault
/ and 500M as /boot 1 256Gig Corsair SSD as /home and a 2 port NVidia graphics card with two 27 inch monitors. My video is split with the two monitors one over the other. When I upgraded from Fedora 20 --> Fedora 22 my upper monitor worked fine but the lower one was SNAFU, weird distorted squig

Dual monitors in Xfce4 fedora 20

2014-09-24 Thread jarmo
Struggling with adding another monitor. With Arandr I can set both monitors working so, that I can drag programs ffrom monitor to another. BUT, monitors are in wrong order. I have DVI-0 and VGA-0, from same card VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-06 Thread lee
Tim writes: > Tim: >>> I tend to agree regarding things like resolution. Screen dimensions and >>> resolutions are fixed entities, and should be set to exactly match the >>> hardware involved. > > lee: >> Many people still don't see it that way. And in a way, they are right: >> Nobody prevents

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-06 Thread poma
On 06.07.2014 15:09, poma wrote: On 04.07.2014 23:06, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? Nope. After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched gears completely. Now it basically pays no att

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-06 Thread poma
On 04.07.2014 23:06, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? Nope. After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched gears completely. Now it basically pays no attention to anything you have to say

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-06 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I tend to agree regarding things like resolution. Screen dimensions and >> resolutions are fixed entities, and should be set to exactly match the >> hardware involved. lee: > Many people still don't see it that way. And in a way, they are right: > Nobody prevents you to use 800x600 on a

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-06 Thread lee
Tim writes: > I tend to agree regarding things like resolution. Screen dimensions and > resolutions are fixed entities, and should be set to exactly match the > hardware involved. Many people still don't see it that way. And in a way, they are right: Nobody prevents you to use 800x600 on a dis

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 July 2014, don fisher sent: > If you do not use the Gnome or KDE you are SOL. Why should a > particular user interface be responsible for things way below the UI > level. I'm not particularly sure that I agree that it's below that level. It is controlling the graphics in

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:18:43 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > If so, care to share which video card and monitor > you use? To drag this thread back on topic, I have achieved success with a Samsung U28D590D monitor and a EVGA GTX 750Ti video card. The main stumbling block was the very very old versions

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-05 Thread don fisher
ce, rather than /home/username: i.e. /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml KDM may do something similiar (it'll have a different path). The file begins like this, and may have multiple sections, if you've switched monitors around: no ...[snip]... If each monitor clones each oth

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:42:57 +0930 Tim wrote: > I have to say that there's a certain level of irony in avoiding using a > graphical tool for configuring your graphical user interface I know why I hate it: Because the devs are constantly changing the GUI interface, so you can't find it or figure o

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-05 Thread Tim
ome/username: i.e. /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml KDM may do something similiar (it'll have a different path). The file begins like this, and may have multiple sections, if you've switched monitors around: no ...[snip]... If each monitor clones each other, it has "y

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread lee
was no EDID --- if there was, monitors that supported it were not widely used. And it's supported since a long time now. > gears completely. Now it basically pays no attention to anything > you have to say in xorg.conf (though you can occasionally > put little fragments of things it

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
On 05.07.2014 03:39, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:15:57 +0200 poma wrote: BTW, respected Tom-Sung, how did you manage to insert additional ModeLine? I don't think I did, I just edited the attributes of the existing info for the 1920x1080 mode lines I got from the dump of the EDID

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:15:57 +0200 poma wrote: > BTW, respected Tom-Sung, how did you manage to insert additional ModeLine? I don't think I did, I just edited the attributes of the existing info for the 1920x1080 mode lines I got from the dump of the EDID for the Samsung TV I started with. I'm mo

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:35:19 +0200 poma wrote: > Also, this can be achieved via 'udev' - Dynamic device management Cool. I hadn't seen that it could be done dynamically. Good to know. Back on the original topic of 4K monitors. I'll find out tomorrow how much trouble it i

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
$ curl -s https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=99224 | monitor-parse-edid Name: TOMSUNG EISA ID: TOM0469 EDID version: 1.3 EDID extension blocks: 1 Screen size: 102.0 cm x 57.4 cm (46.08 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) Gamma: 2.2 Digital signal Max video bandwidth: 230 MHz

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
... https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[:] Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter allows to specify an EDID data set in the

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
Fedora is becoming too opaque to be useful:-( Fedora only use what is already generally defined. For the umpteenth time, :) https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[:] Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:48:58 -0700 don fisher wrote: > I would like to pose I hope a simple question. If you desire something > different than the default computed from the EDID data See earlier reply - start at the kernel-doc EDID directory. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread don fisher
On 07/03/14 21:13, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 03 July 2014, don fisher sent: I have a laptop that attach an external monitor to when I am at home. Until today, it always came up in single screen mode, duplicated on both monitors. I had a power failure, and now the system is treating them

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
ve actually provided an EDID that meets their expectations. Maybe they won't discover any way to break that :-). Whatever is followed or not, is it technically correct or not, certainly it is done correctly with at least some of the monitors. e.g. "Screen size: 53.1 cm x 29.9 cm (2

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread don fisher
On 07/04/14 14:10, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:56:06 +0200 poma wrote: "Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78)" is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to contact Samsung directly. It is not only a known issue, it is p

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:56:06 +0200 poma wrote: > "Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78)" > is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to > contact Samsung directly. It is not only a known issue, it is perfectly legit for Samsung to do tha

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: > Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? Nope. After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched gears completely. Now it basically pays no attention to anything you have to say in xorg.conf (though you can occasionally

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread lee
Tom Horsley writes: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:30:56 -0500 (CDT) > Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> Which binary file? > > You have to install one in the firmware directory after > modifying it by hook or by crook. Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? -- Fedora release 20

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
On 04.07.2014 00:26, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote: Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find. You don't,

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:30:56 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Which binary file? You have to install one in the firmware directory after modifying it by hook or by crook. You can read about it in the kernel docs EDID subdir (yum install kernel-doc will stick a local copy of the docs on your

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Tom Horsley wrote: On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all the same info you used to be able to put in xorg.conf, but now it comes in

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:27:08 +0200 Ahmad Samir wrote: > If you're using GNOME, did you try setting "org.gnome.desktop.interface > scaling-factor" to 1? there were some problems with gnome-shell and > hiDPI issues. All the gnome settings are utterly useless. They are based only on the user. If y

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 04/07/14 00:26, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote: Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find. You don't, i

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-03 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 03 July 2014, don fisher sent: > I have a laptop that attach an external monitor to when I am at home. > Until today, it always came up in single screen mode, duplicated on > both monitors. I had a power failure, and now the system is treating > them as two moni

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:09:41 -0700 don fisher wrote: > Any ideas on where the button > for single screen is hidden? Not really. I haven't ever done much with multiple monitors. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-03 Thread don fisher
w it comes in a semi-documented binary file with no good tools to edit it instead of an ascii text file. Such an improvement :-(. Thanks for getting back. I have a laptop that attach an external monitor to when I am at home. Until today, it always came up in single screen mode, duplicated on both mon

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote: > Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow > system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to > have been replaced by something I cannot find. You don't, it "just works" (except when it doe

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-03 Thread don fisher
On 06/30/14 05:37, Tethys wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Is anyone using a 4K monitor on fedora with open source video drivers and actually getting a 60HZ 3840x2160 image of a single desktop? If so, care to share which video card and monitor you use? Not on a sin

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-06-30 Thread Tethys
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Is anyone using a 4K monitor on fedora with open source > video drivers and actually getting a 60HZ 3840x2160 > image of a single desktop? > > If so, care to share which video card and monitor > you use? Not on a single monitor, but I have a

4K monitors?

2014-06-30 Thread Tom Horsley
I see prices are getting better on 4K monitors (samsung has one on sale for $599 at the moment), but I still find it impossible to figure out if any given video card will actually work with one :-(. Is anyone using a 4K monitor on fedora with open source video drivers and actually getting a 60HZ

Re: F17: SOLVED: swap monitors: minimal xrandr to xorg.conf translation

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, On 14/06/12 17:53 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, My two monitors come up the wrong way round, and I quickly came up with the xrandr command which I've been running when I log in: xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200 --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200 --right-of

F17: swap monitors: minimal xrandr to xorg.conf translation

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, My two monitors come up the wrong way round, and I quickly came up with the xrandr command which I've been running when I log in: xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200 --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200 --right-of VGA-0 However, I am not sure how to express this in xorg.con

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 11/27/2011 01:41 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: Howdy All - I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital video port. It

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
suvayu ali writes: > You could split the image with imagemagick and use the two > images on the two displays. It turns out splitting the image gives one the option of leaving a gap between the left and the right images. My monitors have a 1.7" gap from the frams between the

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Roger
On 28/03/12 04:49, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in a dual-monitor setup? I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection. Is there some way of selecting one image perhaps

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
suvayu ali writes: > You could split the image with imagemagick and use the two > images on the two displays. Thanks. That's effectively what I ended up doing (using gthumb). -wolfgang -- g+: https://plus.google.com/114566345864337108516/about -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 20:08, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> >> Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in >> a dual-monitor setup?  I'm using xfce4 and the desktop sett

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in > a dual-monitor setup? I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool > seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection. Is

dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in a dual-monitor setup? I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection. Is there some way of selecting one image perhaps from gconfig directly? Ditto for the login s

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-12-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Thomas Cameron writes: > I do not, DJ, but that's exactly what I want. Any recommendations as far > as video card setup? I was thinking two identical 1X PCI Express cards > with two outputs each and the proprietary NVidia driver. Thoughts? This is my xorg.conf, specific to my monitor layout of

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