Is there anyone out there who *knows* what the x,y geometry of a notebook's LCD screen might be?? I am attempting to set the correct figures but still don't have it quite right: 320x200 is close, but... :-\ ...I'm weary of killing the x-server on the off-chance that I *finally* have it RIGHT! -- ..."Yogi" CH Namast Yoga Studio
It varies. My IBM T41p is 1400x1050 for instance. Look it up at the manufacturer's site, or your manual. On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:26 am, C Hamel wrote:
Is there anyone out there who *knows* what the x,y geometry of a notebook's LCD screen might be?? I am attempting to set the correct figures but still don't have it quite right: 320x200 is close, but... :-\ ...I'm weary of killing the x-server on the off-chance that I *finally* have it RIGHT! -- ..."Yogi" CH Namast Yoga Studio
On 11:44 Tue 18 Jan , Paul Alfille wrote:
It varies. My IBM T41p is 1400x1050 for instance. Look it up at the manufacturer's site, or your manual.
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:26 am, C Hamel wrote:
Is there anyone out there who *knows* what the x,y geometry of a notebook's LCD screen might be?? I am attempting to set the correct figures but still don't have it quite right: 320x200 is close, but... :-\ ...I'm weary of killing the x-server on the off-chance that I *finally* have it RIGHT! -- ..."Yogi" CH Namast Yoga Studio
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Hm. Another top-poster. :-\ At any rate, thanks for the response. :-) Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic except for "I checked mine before installing SuSE 9.2..." but how did they know to check it, first? It totally blind-sided me. Further, the manual (what manual!?) is totally silent on this issue. Googling didn't bring up anything from HP's web site, either, unfortunately. That is why I asked the question. :-) -- ..."Yogi" CH Namast Yoga Studio
C Hamel wrote:
Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic except for "I checked mine before installing SuSE 9.2..." but how did they know to check it, first? It totally blind-sided me. Further, the manual (what manual!?) is totally silent on this issue. Googling didn't bring up anything from HP's web site, either, unfortunately. That is why I asked the question. :-) It is quite simple actually. x=horizontal measurement, y=vertical. Just take a ruler and measure. You can put these into Yast>Hardware>Graphics Card and Monitor>Change>Monitor>Change Configuration>Properties>Expert>Display Size in [mm] -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On 12:27 Tue 18 Jan , Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
C Hamel wrote:
Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic except for "I checked mine before installing SuSE 9.2..." but how did they know to check it, first? It totally blind-sided me. Further, the manual (what manual!?) is totally silent on this issue. Googling didn't bring up anything from HP's web site, either, unfortunately. That is why I asked the question. :-) It is quite simple actually. x=horizontal measurement, y=vertical. Just take a ruler and measure. You can put these into Yast>Hardware>Graphics Card and Monitor>Change>Monitor>Change Configuration>Properties>Expert>Display Size in [mm] -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
Hm. Wonder what I did w/the ruler! ;-) What a concept. Convert to mm & I'm done! -- ..."Yogi" CH Namast Yoga Studio
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:06, C Hamel wrote:
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Hm. Wonder what I did w/the ruler! ;-) What a concept. Convert to mm & I'm done!
If you're a member of the right secret society, you can buy a ruler graduated in metric units! I know. I've seen them AND escaped with my life, if not all of my body. It was worth it, though. RRS
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 13:12:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:06, C Hamel wrote:
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Hm. Wonder what I did w/the ruler! ;-) What a concept. Convert to mm & I'm done!
If you're a member of the right secret society, you can buy a ruler graduated in metric units! I know. I've seen them AND escaped with my life, if not all of my body. It was worth it, though.
While I'm sure it was quite a quest, the more timid among us may want to install the "units" package and continute using nice, logical units based on multiples of 4. :) --Danny, scoffing at metric measurements
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 13:12:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:06, C Hamel wrote:
...
Hm. Wonder what I did w/the ruler! ;-) What a concept. Convert to mm & I'm done!
If you're a member of the right secret society, you can buy a ruler graduated in metric units! I know. I've seen them AND escaped with my life, if not all of my body. It was worth it, though.
--Danny, scoffing at metric measurements added
While I'm sure it was quite a quest, the more timid among us may want
to install the "units" package and continute using nice, logical units
based on multiples of 4. :)
Shoot Danny,
Why not just use engineering units? A tenth of a foot or a tenth of an
inch works just fine. Heck, you get the best of both worlds.....
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David, On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:46, david rankin wrote:
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 13:12:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:06, C Hamel wrote:
...
Hm. Wonder what I did w/the ruler! ;-) What a concept. Convert to mm & I'm done!
If you're a member of the right secret society, you can buy a ruler graduated in metric units! I know. I've seen them AND escaped with my life, if not all of my body. It was worth it, though.
--Danny, scoffing at metric measurements added
While I'm sure it was quite a quest, the more timid among us may want to install the "units" package and continute using nice, logical units based on multiples of 4. :)
Shoot Danny,
A perfect example of how punctuation matters. Unless you're advocating attempted homicide, I assume you meant to write "Shoot, Danny,". Proper email quoting helps make sense of things, too. (I'll refrain from any lawyer jokes, as I'm a big supporter of the legal profession.). Check out http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/ or http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861976127/026-2574298-5601214.
Why not just use engineering units? A tenth of a foot or a tenth of an inch works just fine. Heck, you get the best of both worlds.....
In my engineering physics classes, the professor would include exam problems in both imperial and metric units. I converted all the imperial problems to metric, solved them and converted the answers back to imperial.
-- David C. Rankin
Randall Schulz
Shoot Danny,
A perfect example of how punctuation matters. Unless you're advocating attempted homicide, I assume you meant to write "Shoot, Danny,". Proper email quoting helps make sense of things, too. (I'll refrain from any lawyer jokes, as I'm a big supporter of the legal profession.).
Me too. In fact my company alone supports several lawyers and a couple legal clerks <g> Jeff
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Thu, Jan 20 at 10:35:
David,
On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:46, david rankin wrote: [...]
--Danny, scoffing at metric measurements added
While I'm sure it was quite a quest, the more timid among us may want to install the "units" package and continute using nice, logical units based on multiples of 4. :)
Shoot Danny,
A perfect example of how punctuation matters. Unless you're advocating attempted homicide, I assume you meant to write "Shoot, Danny,". Proper email quoting helps make sense of things, too. (I'll refrain from any lawyer jokes, as I'm a big supporter of the legal profession.).
I just figured he was telling me to shoot something. I'm not presently armed, but I'll take care of that when I get home. Darned stray dogs - David's got a solution! :)
Check out http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/ or http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861976127/026-2574298-5601214.
That's a great book (and a great title).
Why not just use engineering units? A tenth of a foot or a tenth of an inch works just fine. Heck, you get the best of both worlds.....
In my engineering physics classes, the professor would include exam problems in both imperial and metric units. I converted all the imperial problems to metric, solved them and converted the answers back to imperial.
Did you ever work for NASA? ;) --Danny, contributing nothing
Danny, On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:26, Danny Sauer wrote:
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Thu, Jan 20 at 10:35:
...
Shoot Danny,
A perfect example of how punctuation matters. Unless you're advocating attempted homicide, I assume you meant to write "Shoot, Danny,". Proper email quoting helps make sense of things, too. (I'll refrain from any lawyer jokes, as I'm a big supporter of the legal profession.).
I just figured he was telling me to shoot something. I'm not presently armed, but I'll take care of that when I get home. Darned stray dogs - David's got a solution! :)
Come now! The solution to stray dogs is to take them in, of course. Same with cats. But, even if he was exhorting you to shoot something, the comma would still be required.
Check out http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/ or <http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861976127/026-2574298-56 01214>.
That's a great book (and a great title).
And very well suited to "zero tolerance" types such as myself.
Why not just use engineering units? A tenth of a foot or a tenth of an inch works just fine. Heck, you get the best of both worlds.....
In my engineering physics classes, the professor would include exam problems in both imperial and metric units. I converted all the imperial problems to metric, solved them and converted the answers back to imperial.
Did you ever work for NASA? ;)
I wish. Obviously, if I'd worked there, that problem wouldn't have happened!
--Danny, contributing nothing
I see you're a capitalist. RRS
Joe wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 12:29:
C Hamel wrote:
Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic [...] It is quite simple actually. x=horizontal measurement, y=vertical. Just take a ruler and measure. You can put these into Yast>Hardware>Graphics Card and Monitor>Change>Monitor>Change Configuration>Properties>Expert>Display Size in [mm]
X -configure *does* get that via DPMS (illustrated on an xorg 6.8.0 system named "dev") dev root # X -configure -verbose 2 -logfile xlog > /dev/null 2>&1 dev root # grep DisplaySize xorg.conf.new #DisplaySize 280 210 # mm --Danny, who distrusts rulers ;)
C wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 12:11:
On 11:44 Tue 18 Jan , Paul Alfille wrote:
It varies. My IBM T41p is 1400x1050 for instance. Look it up at the manufacturer's site, or your manual.
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:26 am, C Hamel wrote:
Is there anyone out there who *knows* what the x,y geometry of a notebook's LCD screen might be?? I am attempting to set the correct figures but still don't have it quite right: 320x200 is close, but... :-\ ...I'm weary of killing the x-server on the off-chance that I *finally* have it RIGHT!
Hm. Another top-poster. :-\ At any rate, thanks for the response. :-) Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic except for "I checked mine before installing SuSE 9.2..." but how did they know to check it, first? It totally blind-sided me. Further, the manual (what manual!?) is totally silent on this issue. Googling didn't bring up anything from HP's web site, either, unfortunately. That is why I asked the question. :-)
Maybe if you look real close, you can count them. ;) Seriously, though, can't X find the resolution using DPMS or whatever acronym monitors use to speak? I know that, on my Gentoo machines, I usually just run "X --cofigure" to generate a base xorg.conf, and edit as neccesary. Normally, modern monitors (and, I'd think, laptop displays) report their maximum supported resolution. I'll bet that, if you run "X -configure -verbose 2 -logfile xlog" and then read xlog and xorg.conf.new, you'll get *something* interesting... --Danny, who doesn't at all miss using xconfig, or whatever the CLI X configurator was called
On 09:18 Thu 20 Jan , Danny Sauer wrote:
C wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 12:11:
On 11:44 Tue 18 Jan , Paul Alfille wrote:
It varies. My IBM T41p is 1400x1050 for instance. Look it up at the manufacturer's site, or your manual.
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:26 am, C Hamel wrote:
Is there anyone out there who *knows* what the x,y geometry of a notebook's LCD screen might be?? I am attempting to set the correct figures but still don't have it quite right: 320x200 is close, but... :-\ ...I'm weary of killing the x-server on the off-chance that I *finally* have it RIGHT!
Hm. Another top-poster. :-\ At any rate, thanks for the response. :-) Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic except for "I checked mine before installing SuSE 9.2..." but how did they know to check it, first? It totally blind-sided me. Further, the manual (what manual!?) is totally silent on this issue. Googling didn't bring up anything from HP's web site, either, unfortunately. That is why I asked the question. :-)
Maybe if you look real close, you can count them. ;)
Seriously, though, can't X find the resolution using DPMS or whatever acronym monitors use to speak? I know that, on my Gentoo machines, I usually just run "X --cofigure" to generate a base xorg.conf, and edit as neccesary. Normally, modern monitors (and, I'd think, laptop displays) report their maximum supported resolution. I'll bet that, if you run "X -configure -verbose 2 -logfile xlog" and then read xlog and xorg.conf.new, you'll get *something* interesting...
--Danny, who doesn't at all miss using xconfig, or whatever the CLI X configurator was called
There's a good idea. I'm currently playing w/Gentoo, as well. Perhaps I'll test it out on that distro, then tweak SuSE. -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio
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