Widescreen monitor

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I'm looking into getting a Gateway FPD2185W monitor.

I brought my wife's laptop to the store and discovered that in order
to view pictures without distortion, I needed to set it to the native
1680x1050 size.

Anybody know what its native size is when the monitor is vertical?


I also discovered that I couldn't run a VGA game without losing much
of the picture. That was solved by setting the resolution down to
VGA size before running the game. But that is a real pain. Is
there an easy way to do this?

My wife has an ATI video card on her laptop, and I have a ATI Radeon
9250 at home. (I had a 9200 but suspecting my videocard was bad
instead of my monitor, I replaced it for a trial, but was unable to
get my old card working again).
 
Howard Brazee said:
I'm looking into getting a Gateway FPD2185W monitor.

I brought my wife's laptop to the store and discovered that in order
to view pictures without distortion, I needed to set it to the native
1680x1050 size.

Anybody know what its native size is when the monitor is vertical?
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Native pixel format? If it's 1680 x 1050 when in "landscape"
orientation, then it has to be 1050 x 1680 when "portrait" (what
I think you mean by "vertical."

Bob M.
 
Native pixel format? If it's 1680 x 1050 when in "landscape"
orientation, then it has to be 1050 x 1680 when "portrait" (what
I think you mean by "vertical."
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One would think so, but I've never seen that on a video card.
 
Howard Brazee said:
One would think so, but I've never seen that on a video card.
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Doesn't matter - a panel's native format (i.e., the
physical number of pixels horizontally and vertically)
doesn't (can't) change simply when it's rotated into
a "portrait" (long axis vertical) orientation. Whether or
not there's a standard timing for this "new" format
is irrelevant - you only have so many pixels, either way.

Bob M.
 
Howard Brazee said:
One would think so, but I've never seen that on a video card.
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My experience (Dell 2405fpw) has been that when you rotate the monitor, the
resolutions will "rotate" to accomodate the monitor. With my current config
of the 2405 & ATI 9600 Pro, the card drivers will "reverse" the listed
resolutions. Make sure you have the newest drivers for the card. Also,
download the ATI uninstaller utility here:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1447

The uninstaller works well. If you use this utility and re-install your 9200
drivers, you should be fine. Remember, use the latest drivers at:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=293

Hark
 
Looking up various monitors on the Internet, I suspect that my problem
is assuming I will have knowledgeable salesmen if I go to computer
stores who have set up monitors correctly in the first place.

Or who have a clue.
 
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