[ltp] Re: T410s and projector

Leon Brokken linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:08:00 +0200


On 07/26/2011 06:50 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> To set 1024x768 via xrandr:
>
> xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768
>
> or (to create a new mode with a possibly correct modeline and both
> hsync and vsync enabled):
>
> xrandr --newmode "1024x768+h+v" 66.77 1024 1080 1184 1344  800 801 804 828 +hsync +vsync
> xrandr --addmode VGA1 --mode "1024x768+h+v"
> xrandr --output VGA1 --mode "1024x768+h+v"
>
> The modeline given here was created with gtf. I found that playing
> with (+/-)(h/v)sync was necessary to get my monitor to stop from
> blanking every few minutes for half a second, so you might want to
> give it a try.
>
> Maybe reducing the refresh rate might be another option, so you might
> try that as well (by generating the appropriate modeline with gtf).
Thanks! I will give this a try tomorrow when I'm near a projector.

> Do you have another computer with which you could test if the
> projector works properly?
I have tried this, the projector works fine (with a winXP laptop).

Cheers, Leon.