What if xrandr doesn't have the resolution you need?

[Andrej Marjan]

On March 16, 2009 09:05:29 pm William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I have a Debian box at work plugged into a Dell 24" LCD with 1920x1200
> pixels.  xrandr does not give me this size as an option, however.  The
> box uses an ATI video card, and it is plugged into the VGA input on the
> monitor, if that matters.
>
> The current size is 1650x1080, which of course looks wrong, but if
> xrandr doesn't give me the option I need, what do I do?

That's about as high as you'll get out of single link DVI.

To get 1920x1200 you'll need a dual link port on your video card and dual link 
DVI cable; do you have both?
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