[geeks] Samsung 204B flat panel

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Francois Dion wrote:
> Another thumbs up for the Samsung 204B. 1600x1200 is a minimum for a
> desktop for me, thats what had prevented me to go LCD at work in the
> past.
> 
> Note that Solaris 10 will not support 1600x1200 out of the box thru
> the normal process. It faults on horizsync and vertrefresh, and
> doesn't have a mode entry. So it defaults to 1024x768. Adding the mode
> bumped it to 1280x960 and finally adding the HorizSync and VertRefresh
> allowed 1600x1200.
> 
> I had to copy /etc/X11/.xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> Then edit the monitor section to:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Samsung SyncMaster 204B"
>         VendorName   "Samsung"
>         ModelName    "SyncMaster 204B"
>         HorizSync 30-81
>         VertRefresh 56-75
>         modeline "1600x1200 at 60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201
> 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
>         gamma 1.0
> EndSection
> 
> 
> I didn't bother putting the lower resolutions.

I had to do something similar to get my IBM T120 to work under AIX under 
1600x1200.

Peace...  Sridhar