Will Apple Cinema 30' display, in its native resolution: 2560 x 1600, work
under Openserver 6's X? Thanks.

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In article <de30ht$ii8$1@reader2.panix.com>, <third@whasup.com> wrote:
>Will Apple Cinema 30' display, in its native resolution: 2560 x 1600, work
>under Openserver 6's X? Thanks.

Probably depends on the video board.
For reference, I was unable to get an Apple DVI-only 23" display to work
with an ATI PCIE X300 board using the ati Xorg driver under 5.0.6.
I ended up with the Dell 2405FPW 24" display, which works in both analog & DVI
modes at 1920x1200. My impression was that the problem with the Apple monitor
was an ATI-Xorg-driver+Apple-DVI-monitor-specific issue.

John
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John DuBois spcecdt@armory.com KC6QKZ/AE http://www.armory.com/~spcecdt/

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 2:35:16 +0100, John DuBois wrote
(in message <11gadqkssmgr9a8@corp.supernews.com>):

>> Will Apple Cinema 30' display, in its native resolution: 2560 x 1600, work
>> under Openserver 6's X? Thanks.
>
> Probably depends on the video board.

I would be inclined to suggest 'probably not' with most cards. IIRC it
requires a 'dual channel' card to work. This is not a card with two outputs,
but an output that uses both digital channels available in DVI. For this
reasons, it doesn't work with all Macs I believe.

If you have a suitable card then you should be able to get it to work, but
don't blame me if it doesn't !

As per John DuBois (spcecdt@armory.com):

> In article <de30ht$ii8$1@reader2.panix.com>, <third@whasup.com> wrote:
> >Will Apple Cinema 30' display, in its native resolution: 2560 x 1600, work
> >under Openserver 6's X? Thanks.
>
> Probably depends on the video board.
> For reference, I was unable to get an Apple DVI-only 23" display to work
> with an ATI PCIE X300 board using the ati Xorg driver under 5.0.6.
> I ended up with the Dell 2405FPW 24" display, which works in both analog & DVI
> modes at 1920x1200. My impression was that the problem with the Apple monitor
> was an ATI-Xorg-driver+Apple-DVI-monitor-specific issue.

Thanks. To be on the safe side, I went for Dell 2405FPW and was very pleasantly
surprised by its quality and features (not to mention its price). The only
problem so far is an ugly looking font that shows up here and there.
For example, in the pop-up box with a question:

Are you sure you want to log out?

which comes up when one tries to exit from a Desktop. And there are some
applications that exhibit the same ugly font as well. Any idea how to fix that?

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:00:31 +0100, third@whasup.com () wrote
(in message <df4d5v$s3n$1@reader2.panix.com>):

> The only
> problem so far is an ugly looking font that shows up here and there.
> For example, in the pop-up box with a question:
>
> Are you sure you want to log out?

But you can hardly blame the monitor for accurately displaying an ugly font !

As per Simon Hobson (simonsnews@thehobsons.codotuk):

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:00:31 +0100, third@whasup.com () wrote
> (in message <df4d5v$s3n$1@reader2.panix.com>):
>
> > The only
> > problem so far is an ugly looking font that shows up here and there.
> > For example, in the pop-up box with a question:
> >
> > Are you sure you want to log out?
>
> But you can hardly blame the monitor for accurately displaying an ugly font !

True. I suspect it has something to do with codesets. I went around the
problem by adding the following two lines to .Xdefaults-HOSTNAME:

*FontList: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

to overwrite these lines in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/font/FontDefaults:

*FontList: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*
*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*

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