On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Rick Hudson <<a href="mailto:rick@kpo.org.nz">rick@kpo.org.nz</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 14/04/2008 1:20 p.m., Steven Ellis wrote:<br>
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>> The old sony crt tv has died gracefully - thankfully I will now be able<br>
>> to replace it with a LCD one.<br>
>><br>
>> I am a bit worried about the LCD TV's resolution of 1366x768 and how it<br>
>> will be handled by Xorg and thus Mythtv frontend (a laptop with intel 945<br>
>> graphics and alternatively a desktop with nvidia 6200 video)<br>
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</div>Are you concerned that because the resolution is not normal-looking that it<br>
can't be driven at native resolution? If you're not a hacker then this is a<br>
probably a valid concern but the newer intel grpahics drivers seem to be able<br>
to drive those chips at more or less any resolution you like with some effort<br>
in coming up with a suitable modeline. I don't know why this customization has<br>
to be so hard!</blockquote><div><br>It's not the graphics card that's the issue - you need a tv that will accept that resolution. For example, my plasma (which is admittedly old and cheap) will not accept anything but "standard" computer resolutions (640x480,800x600,etc) on the VGA or DVI inputs (dvi also accepts HDTV resolutions). It won't accept a signal at it's native resolution so there not way to drive it with a 1:1 pixel mapping.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>