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Doomwookie
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:30 am Post subject: 17-inch WXGA Laptops |
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I'm thinking of buying a Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 that comes with one of those huge 17" WXGA screens to use as a portable gentoo box. But I'm concerned about how well xfree might be able to deal with the oddball 1440 x 900 resolution. Does anybody here have any experience with the widescreen laptops and how well they work with linux?
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npmccallum
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:59 am Post subject: Re: 17-inch WXGA Laptops |
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| Doomwookie wrote: | | I'm thinking of buying a Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 that comes with one of those huge 17" WXGA screens to use as a portable gentoo box. But I'm concerned about how well xfree might be able to deal with the oddball 1440 x 900 resolution. Does anybody here have any experience with the widescreen laptops and how well they work with linux? |
That laptop sucks. I played around with one for like an hour. Its 2x the weight as my PB 17" with less features (and less stability). As far as X, I think that resolution should work fine, but don't quote me.
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mantis
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| I have the Toshiba P20 (Untrackable model) and i run 1440x900 on it fine. The only thing i can't get working is the internal modem. |
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IMPERIUM
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:32 pm Post subject: toshiba p20 xfree config |
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| mantis wrote: | | I have the Toshiba P20 (Untrackable model) and i run 1440x900 on it fine. The only thing i can't get working is the internal modem. |
Hey man, any change I can get a copy of your xfree config file for 1440x900, I have a p20 as well, but I cant seem to find a sample config with the modes lines in it 
if you cant attach the file here, and are willing to help, can email it to me at "primus <at> imperium <dot> ca" |
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mantis
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Heya the laptop is no longer in my hands, but I will get the config file sent to me and send it on to you.
Send me an email at dylan.egan[at]optusnet.com.au reminding me about it. Thanks. |
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ppbenoit
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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I spent a lot of time finding the right timings for my hp pavillon zd7000 with 17" wxga:
This program help to compute modlines:
http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
Check timings values automatiquely detected by X in /var/log/XFree86. So you can see max freq allowed by your monitor.
If you have got dual boot with windows, windows can give you some info too.
One important point that put me into trouble is that 1440x900 is 16/10 ratio, not 16/9 like it was mentioned in my vendors add...
ModeLine "1440x900@55" 97.54 1440 1472 1840 1872 900 919 927 946
ModeLine "1280x800@60" 83.9 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841
ModeLine "800x600@60" 38.2 800 832 976 1008 600 612 618 631
Hope it can help you |
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