{"id":205,"date":"2006-05-22T01:39:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2006-05-22T01:41:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T22:41:35","slug":"changing-resolution-to-a-tft-monitor-connected-with-dvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/05\/22\/changing-resolution-to-a-tft-monitor-connected-with-dvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing resolution to a TFT monitor connected with DVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a slight problem with my new TFT monitor (LG L1970H-BF). When connected with a DVI cable I couldn&#8217;t get refresh rates of more than 60Hz. The monitor specifically says that it support up to 1280&#215;1024@75Hz. But my xorg.conf refused to work, the resolution was stuck on 1280&#215;1024 @ 60Hz&#8230;that&#8217;s what the monitor showed whatever I tweaked in xorg.conf.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found this very very usefull utility: <a href=\"http:\/\/gtf.sourceforge.net\/\">gtf<\/a>. What this does small utility does is create proper Modelines for your xorg.conf because DDC is sometimes problematic in it&#8217;s automatic mode detection. This utility though managed to create a perfect modeline for my monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Now with this line:<\/p>\n<p><code>    Modeline \"1280x1024_75.00\"  138.54  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1025 1028 1069  -HSync +Vsync <\/code><\/p>\n<p>I have the resolution that I want. Me and my monitor are a lot happier now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Btw, the following lines might be helpfull too for some others:<\/p>\n<p><code>        Option    \"NoDDC\" \"1\"<br \/>\n    Option    \"IgnoreEDID\" \"on\"<br \/>\n    Option    \"MergedFB\" \"off\"<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Cheers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a slight problem with my new TFT monitor (LG L1970H-BF). When connected with a DVI cable I couldn&#8217;t get refresh rates of more than 60Hz. The monitor specifically says that it support up to 1280&#215;1024@75Hz. But my xorg.conf refused to work, the resolution was stuck on 1280&#215;1024 @ 60Hz&#8230;that&#8217;s what the monitor showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4342,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}