The Path to Zen

Hooked up my new 24″ LCD - suprisingly easy

I’ve wanted to replace one of the dual-19″ LCDs with a widescreen for a while. So Today I picked up the Samsung 2443BWX $349.99 special Costco is running. I had thought hooking it up to my dual-head setup would be some pain because it would have to run under 1920×1200 while the other 19″ under 1280×1024. Well, it worked out surprisingly easy in both Windows and Linux. In Windows, it was trivially done via the display settings. In Linux, all I had to do was replace this line in the xorg.conf:

Option “metamodes” “DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0″

with

Option “metamodes” “DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0″

and restart the X server.