[ltp] Getting nVidia to clone display on a projector

[Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD)]

On 11/23/2010 12:13 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> [...] So you're saying the reason I get the option of
> 1680x1050, and nothing lower until I go all the way down to 1280x1024
> is because the nVidia driver decided that the intervening resolutions
> wouldn't work at the above sync and refresh rates? 
> 
> That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Higher resolutions normally
> require lower sync and refresh rates as you approach the upper limit of
> what the video card can do. So if it can do 1680x1050, it should have
> no problem doing any lower resolution. [...]
>
Loong time ago there were monitors that only could do a fixed set
of frequencies, and for those your assumption would be dangerously
wrong :)

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/video-faq/13-What-s-the-difference-between-fixed-frequency-andmultisynchronous-monitors.html

cheers,
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