I recently bought a Dell 2005FPW WideScreen LCD monitor (16:10).
Although it's pretty easy to setup under Windows, I did spend some
time for getting it work under FC3. Here is my xorg.conf file, and
hope it can help. This configuration at least can boot up your
monitor, so you can adjust it by using xdvitune. On the other hand, if
you experience in trouble with mplayer or xine, you might need to
change the default depth to be 16bit or lower.

#configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with
xset(1))
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

#Specify the mouse device
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

# Customized display mode
Section "Modes"
# 1680x1050 @ 60 Hz
# Horizontal pixels
# Front porch: 104 Back porch: 280 Sync width: 176
# Sync polarity: - Scan rate: 65.29kHz Active pixels: 1680
# Vertical lines:
# Front porch: 3 Back porch: 30 Sync width: 6
# Sync polarity + Refresh rate 59.954Hz Active pixels: 1050
# Pixel clock: 146.25MHz
Identifier "16:10"
ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1960 2136 2240 1050 1080 1086 1089
-hsync +vsync
EndSection

# Configure your monitor
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "DELL 2005FPW"
UseModes "16:10"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

# Configure your graphic card
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

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In article <c09c0.0412021144.3b82edc1@posting.google.com>,
leo <yinleo@netscape.net> wrote:
># Configure your graphic card
>Section "Device"
>    Identifier "Videocard0"
>    Driver "nv"
>    VendorName "Videocard vendor"
>    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
>EndSection

I'm considering this monitor, and am wondering if my graphics
card (Matrox G550) will support the 16:10 resolution. It's an
older card - does that matter? Are graphics cards hardwired
for specific resolutions, or is just a matter of having enough
memory and bandwidth to support a given resolution/refresh rate?

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dhs wrote:
> In article <c09c0.0412021144.3b82edc1@posting.google.com>,
> leo <yinleo@netscape.net> wrote: 
>
> I'm considering this monitor, and am wondering if my graphics
> card (Matrox G550) will support the 16:10 resolution. It's an
> older card - does that matter? Are graphics cards hardwired
> for specific resolutions, or is just a matter of having enough
> memory and bandwidth to support a given resolution/refresh rate?

I guess you should have your graphic card to support this aspect ratio.
It's not the hardware issue, but you probably need to have updated
driver to support it.

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quote:
Originally posted by dhs 
I'm considering this monitor, and am wondering if my graphics
card (Matrox G550) will support the 16:10 resolution. It's an
older card - does that matter? Are graphics cards hardwired
for specific resolutions, or is just a matter of having enough
memory and bandwidth to support a given resolution/refresh rate? [/B]
 

Graphics cards have been programmable with respect to resolution, aspect rat
io and refresh rates for a long time, sometimes down to four significant dig
its.  In Windows, a program called Powerstrip lets users to set custom timin
gs for less common resolutions.  As it works with a G450, I would expect a M
atrox G550 to be able to do it, but I can't help you on knowing how to set u
p X to display it with this monitor.

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quote:
Originally posted by leo 
I recently bought a Dell 2005FPW WideScreen LCD monitor (16:10).
Although it's pretty easy to setup under Windows, I did spend some
time for getting it work under FC3. Here is my xorg.conf file, and
hope it can help. This configuration at least can boot up your
monitor, so you can adjust it by using xdvitune. On the other hand, if
you experience in trouble with mplayer or xine, you might need to
change the default depth to be 16bit or lower.
 

Thanks for posting this.  How did you obtain the front and back porch and sc
an widths on the 2005 FPW?

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