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

[Phil]

Wow. I stand corrected, that must be an awesome screen.
Phil

xing@synapse.plus.com wrote:
> 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.
>
> x
>
>
> 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.
>>
>>        --
>>        Daniel Pittman <[2]daniel@cybersource.com.au>           Phone: 03 9621
>>        2377
>>        Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne             Web:
>>        [3]http://www.cyber.com.au
>>        Cybersource: Australia's Leading Linux and Open Source Solutions
>>        Company
>>
>>        --
>>        The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
>>        [4]http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>>
>>      --
>>      Top of Center - [5]http://www.topofcenter.com
>>      Libertarian news and views podcast brought to you Mondays at 8pm EST by
>>      TalkShoe.com. Freedom issues that affect your life and what you can do
>>      about them.
>>
>>      Get a TalkShoe.com account and listen in LIVE!
>>
>>    -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
>>    http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>>
>> References
>>
>>    Visible links
>>    1. mailto:daniel@rimspace.net
>>    2. mailto:daniel@cybersource.com.au
>>    3. http://www.cyber.com.au/
>>    4. http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>>    5. http://www.topofcenter.com/
>>