greetings. i recently acquired a 23-inch sony sdm-p323w lcd display. it was the store display (which is how i could afford it) and came with no documentation, nor does any seem to be available online. this panel has 1920x1200 resolution. it also has two digital (DVI-D) and two analog inputs, switchable in firmware and via a front panel switch. its timing is, according to published specs, 28-92kHz horizontal and 48-85Hz vertical. when booting linux in pure text mode, i get text whether on the analog or digital "side," with the digital much sharper. of course, i'd like to use the digital side for xfree as well, but this has thusfar been elusive. i'm running suse 9.1 with current security patches. i have installed the ati-provided driver, which has actually broken stuff: i was getting 1920x1200@72Hz analog, with direct rendering. by switching back to the xfree-provided radeon driver i can still get this resolution and refresh rate, but the ati installation appears to have well and truly broken dri. the xfree shipped with suse 9.1 identifies itself as 4.3.99. the kernel is 2.6.5. i should mention that the monitor did not come with a DVI cable; i am using a monster cable designed for television use, but do not know if this matters. in various experiments using the radeon driver and the ati-supplied fglrx driver, i have on occasion gotten a very noisy digital display at apparently random resolutions such as 1778x1200 and 1858x1200, which quickly blink off. when using the radeon driver, no errors are reported in the xfree log except for dri failing to load. but the digital side is blank. i've read the radeon manpage, which has been of help, but there is no DVI-D-specific documentation i can find for setting this up. sax2 is of no assistance here, alas, in keeping with its long tradition. is there any experience here in configuring a big lcd for DVI-D input? are there any particular tests i could or should perform that might provide useful information? my sense is that the heads need to be configured separately and there should be two monitor configurations, one for analog and one for digital, but i'm lost in figuring out both their syntax and their contents. thanks in advance for information, advice, or educated guesses. -- dep _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
