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Hooked up my new 24″ LCD – suprisingly easy

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

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.

Kington and Corsair don’t live happily together

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

In light of the recent RAM price drop, I have decided to give my “meager” 1GB RAM a boost. So I went to NewEgg, ordered the Corsair 2×512MB PC3200 w/ free shipping. The next day (yes, did I mention NewEgg+FedEx rocks!) the two lovely sticks were on my desk, ready for a supposedly straightforward installation. more…