I received the Dell U3011 monitor today, which has a native display resolution of 2560x1600. I have an HP HDX9494 with an Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS video card in it that I am using to drive it. The user manual for the U3011 is here http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/MONITORS/U3011/en/ug/about.htm The specs for the HDX9494 is here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01490775&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&os=2100&product=3747924&sw_lang= Info on the Geforce 8800 GTS is here http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_8800.html http://www.nvidia.com/page/8800_tech_specs.html The problem is that I can't get the laptop to HDX9494 to drive the U3011 at 2560x1600. The U3011 has several inputs, HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI (Dual link) and VGA. According to the manual, the "highest preset resolution" of the monitor when using the HDMI input is 1920x1600 @ 60 Hz. The "highest preset resolution" is 2560x1600 for DVI and DisplayPort inputs. The HDX laptop does not have a DVI or DisplayPort output. It does have an HDMI port. According to the GF8800 documentation, it has two dual link DVI ports that support 2560x1600. The HDMI wiki tells me that HDMI 1.3 should support 1560x1600@ 24 bits at 75Hz. HDMI 1.3 was released in 2006 and the HDX was built in 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI When I connect the HDX to the U3011 HDMI port using a High Speed HDMI cable, the maximum resolution I am able to select from the configuration software is 1920 x 1200. When I connect the HDX to the U3011 DVI port using a High Speed HDMI cable and a dual link HDMI to DVI adapter, the maximum resolution I am able to select from the configuration software is 1600 x 1200 I have tried this with both the proprietary nvidia driver and the nouveau driver. I have tried manually editing the xorg.conf file with various modelines to no avail. When I run the nvidia-setting software and look at the properties of the display, it shows a dual link connection for the built in 1680x1050 display and a single link connection for the HDMI device. How do I get my HDX to drive the U3011 at 2560x1600 ? Is this a hardware problem or a software problem ? Does the nouveau driver use the xorg.conf file the way the proprietary driver does, ie does it use modelines ? Thanks ! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
