On 8/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Woods</b> <<a href="mailto:greg@gregandeva.net">greg@gregandeva.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 20:22 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:<br>> given this information... are modelines portable among graphics cards<br>> and vga/dvi?<br><br>Not entirely. Some graphics cards (unfortunately probably including
<br>those on all but maybe the highest end laptops) won't have enough memory<br>for HD modelines. The modeline is also not the only setting that is<br>involved, there are driver settings as well which may not port exactly
<br>from one card to another.<br><br>One last thing that I bumped into is, my TV would not accept an HD<br>modeline through the VGA connector. I wasted a lot of time and effort<br>before realizing this. It only worked through an HDMI connection. Unless
<br>your laptop has a DVI-out connector, you probably won't be able to use<br>it for testing in any case (assuming that what you had in mind was<br>bringing your laptop to the store).<br><br>I would say that having a known working modeline is likely to make the
<br>display side of things a whole lot easier, but is not by itself<br>sufficient. If you happen to be good at fiddling with X, this may not<br>even matter to you. All I know for sure is that having to generate a<br>modeline from scratch was a huge headache for me.
<br><br>--Greg<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>When I went into the store, I came with a port replicator that I borrowed from work. Adds another ethernet, DVI, serial, sound, USB, and power. :)
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