Thursday, November 02, 2006

Datatrain DC619 monitor under Linux

I wanted to do more than 1280x960 on the machine and had a hard time getting it to work. I was editing the refresh rates as well as the mode lines (resolution) in the xorg.conf file. I remembered I had an old file where it said the monitor was made by someone else. It seems this monitor is really a Samsung 17GL.

Anyhow, I set up the monitor settings to that particular set and it works. Since the monitor is a widescreen model I figured I'd make the best use of it I could. Now I'm running 1680x1050 @ 60Hz.