[7807] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 7010s check out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Aug 15 09:30:14 2012
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> I'll note that these ship with displayport->DVI adapters, and also DVI->VGA
> adapters, and that the video card has both connectors. To take advantage of
> the good graphics as much as possible, I think we want to use the displayport
> adapter and DVI cables to the monitor. Do we still have all the DVI cables
> that came with the monitors originally?
A correction to this, we will _have to_ use a DVI connection to the
monitor. It doesn't matter whether it's using the DVI connector or the
DisplayPort one, but Linux does not correctly sense the size of the
monitor when using the DVI->VGA adapter, so the desktop ends up either
skewed or undisplayable.
So we will need to find the DVI cables that came with the original
monitors. If they were disposed of when the monitors were first deployed,
we'll need to order more.
-Jon
