Resolution on laptop

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Don Rogers wrote:

> Wow!
> Are LCD different that CRT monitors.  I have always seen the warning
> that you may damage your monitor....

lcd display controllers will generally not attempt to display signals that 
are out of range.
 
> Don
> 
> > 
> > This is on a 1600x1200 laptop LCD panel.  I seriously doubt any harm will come 
> > to your LCD panel whatever numbers you stick in here.
> > 
> > What does your screen section say?  You don't want the same, but for example 
> > mine has this:
> > 
> > Section "Screen"
> >         Identifier "Screen0"
> >         Device     "Videocard0"
> >         Monitor    "Monitor0"
> >         DefaultDepth     24
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Depth     24
> >                 Modes    "1600x1200"  <-- you can add other modes here in 
> > their own doublequotes
> >         EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> > 
> > You can also use KDE's cool krandrtray applet to select between listed modes 
> > at runtime without restarting X.
> > 
> > - -Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 

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