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

[Daniel Pittman]

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> 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.

[...]

> 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]

...and everything I can manage to test is agrees, so this is the time to
call me hardware vendor and enquire politely about how I got something a
little different from what I paid for.

In the end the most convincing thing was to test the VESA BIOS from DOS
mode using a range of tools, and to try setting the 1920x1200 modes;
none of the tools listed the higher resolution and nothing succeeded in
setting the mode.

Regards,
        Daniel

I suppose I /could/ have counted the pixels by hand...
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