[ltp] Do I actually have a 1920x1200 screen or not?
Phil
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:18:57 +0100
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I believe the 1920x1200 refers to the max resolution of the graphics
card, not the LCD. If you plug a high-res monitor in you should be able
to get 1920x1200 on it, but I don't believe the LCDs on the T6x range
go beyond 1680.<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
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Benjamin Thompson wrote:
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cite="mid:6b85c880710190859k6bdda6bep5f735c956e49112@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">When I ordered my T61p, and booted to Vista, 1680 appeared
to be the max resolution. I was not aware the monitors came in
higher-res models, otherwise I would have bought one of those.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Pittman</b> <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:daniel@rimspace.net">daniel@rimspace.net</a>>
wrote:</span>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">G'day. I
am currently trying to work out for certain if I have a<br>
1920x1200 screen in my laptop or not -- in all seriousness.<br>
<br>
I have a Thinkpad T61p, 6460-74M, which /should/ have a 1920x1200<br>
display in it. At least, I expected it to when I paid for it.
<br>
<br>
It has an nVidia Quadro FX 570M card in, and since the default 'nv'<br>
driver gives only a black screen I am using the binary driver 100.14.19<br>
<br>
X is working reasonably nicely, but will not do anything larger that
<br>
1680x1050 -- and the nVidia settings widget claims that in the native<br>
panel resolution.[1]<br>
<br>
<br>
Running 'hwinfo --framebuffer' gives me a list of modes that includes<br>
1920x1200 from the console, though, as does the specs on the Lenovo
<br>
support site when I tapped in my machine type and model numbers.<br>
<br>
lspci also claims 256MB of memory is attached to the video card; as far<br>
as I know only the 1920 models had 256MB of video ram...<br>
<br>
<br>
Finally, running at 1680x1050 doesn't have any obvious signs of
<br>
distortion or blurring from the image being rescaled to the panel<br>
resolution.<br>
<br>
<br>
So, is there any specific way I can verify the native resolution?<br>
<br>
(Sadly I got rid of both Windows and the recovery partition before I
<br>
found that I had this issue, so that isn't an easy option to verify the<br>
hardware.)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
Dammit. I should have booted Windows once just to be sure.<br>
<br>
Footnotes:<br>
[1] It also claims I have 512MB of video RAM, twice what Lenovo list,
<br>
so I take both of these claims with a grain of salt.<br>
<br>
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