Sunday, August 26, 2007

Getting 1280x768 on my TV

Ive bought a new TV. It came down to a Samsung vs Sony fight but after a few rounds at the store I came home with a new black 32" Sony Bravia U2530. The first thing I did was to hook it up to my HTPC and start fiddling with the settings.

In order to produce 1280x768 (this is whats the TV is limited to on the VGA port) with my radeon 9200 i had to change drivers in Xorg.conf. From vesa to radeon.

The tv specific parts in the Xorg.conf that I want to share with the world are:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 47.4
VertRefresh 60
EndSection

And the:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Voila, everything working fine. :)

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