[ltp] Do I actually have a 1920x1200 screen or not?

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this is one way of working out the resolution if you have ImageMagick installed:

# create a screenshot of the root window
import -window root screenshot.png
# display information about the screenshot you just made
identify screenshot.png

i have a T61p with a 15.4'' screen and i have a 1920x1200 resolution.

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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Phil wrote:

>    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.
> 
>    Phil
> 
>    Benjamin Thompson wrote:
> 
>      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.
> 
>      On 10/19/07, Daniel Pittman <[1]daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
> 
>        G'day.  I am currently trying to work out for certain if I have a
>        1920x1200 screen in my laptop or not -- in all seriousness.
> 
>        I have a Thinkpad T61p, 6460-74M, which /should/ have a 1920x1200
>        display in it.  At least, I expected it to when I paid for it.
> 
>        It has an nVidia Quadro FX 570M card in, and since the default 'nv'
>        driver gives only a black screen I am using the binary driver
>        100.14.19
> 
>        X is working reasonably nicely, but will not do anything larger that
>        1680x1050 -- and the nVidia settings widget claims that in the native
>        panel resolution.[1]
> 
>        Running 'hwinfo --framebuffer' gives me a list of modes that includes
>        1920x1200 from the console, though, as does the specs on the Lenovo
>        support site when I tapped in my machine type and model numbers.
> 
>        lspci also claims 256MB of memory is attached to the video card; as
>        far
>        as I know only the 1920 models had 256MB of video ram...
> 
>        Finally, running at 1680x1050 doesn't have any obvious signs of
>        distortion or blurring from the image being rescaled to the panel
>        resolution.
> 
>        So, is there any specific way I can verify the native resolution?
> 
>        (Sadly I got rid of both Windows and the recovery partition before I
>        found that I had this issue, so that isn't an easy option to verify
>        the
>        hardware.)
> 
>        Regards,
>                Daniel
> 
>        Dammit.  I should have booted Windows once just to be sure.
> 
>        Footnotes:
>        [1]  It also claims I have 512MB of video RAM, twice what Lenovo list,
>             so I take both of these claims with a grain of salt.
> 
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