Plasma Schplasma
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I'm trying to hook a 50-inch LG Plasma screen up to my PC. The problem is the aspect ratio on the widescreen plasma is not available in my display control panel. So all circles are flattened top-to-bottom. How can I correct this? Can I create an .inf to configure the display and install it as a new monitor? Surely some CPian out there is cruising with a plasma chiasma? Help!:)
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I'm trying to hook a 50-inch LG Plasma screen up to my PC. The problem is the aspect ratio on the widescreen plasma is not available in my display control panel. So all circles are flattened top-to-bottom. How can I correct this? Can I create an .inf to configure the display and install it as a new monitor? Surely some CPian out there is cruising with a plasma chiasma? Help!:)
caractacus wrote: Surely some CPian out there is cruising with a plasma chiasma? you have me beat.... I have a mear 48" Plasma. However, our cards do support the aspect ratio of the monitor. Yours might too, though may not recognize the monitor directly (and therefore give generic options). I can help on nVidia cards, there is an option in the advanced for selecting all modes, there is also a check-box in the Monitor tab of advanced display properties for "hide modes that this monitor cannot display". Overriding these setttings can be troublesome, though I have not blown a monitor in almost 10 years from sending it data beyond its capability, I hear it still can be done. So make sure the monitor can support the various modes before setting them with either of the driver-override settings. When we don't have the monitor drivers on a system the graphics card doesn't know how to send it a signal, and gives generic. With the plasma we usually run digital only, and under digital, it has always brought up the wide aspect even when the monitor inf is not loaded on the system. I presume because the Digital hardware exchanges more information on monitor capability than the standard analog signal can (I am just a software guy, so don't accept that as law). To say anything more, I'd have to know graphics card, drivers loaded, is the monitor listed by name in the "monitor type" section of the monitor tab (advanced display settings) in windows. Version of windows, etc. Good luck! Jeff P.S. watch your electric bill, I hear they are power hungry. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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caractacus wrote: Surely some CPian out there is cruising with a plasma chiasma? you have me beat.... I have a mear 48" Plasma. However, our cards do support the aspect ratio of the monitor. Yours might too, though may not recognize the monitor directly (and therefore give generic options). I can help on nVidia cards, there is an option in the advanced for selecting all modes, there is also a check-box in the Monitor tab of advanced display properties for "hide modes that this monitor cannot display". Overriding these setttings can be troublesome, though I have not blown a monitor in almost 10 years from sending it data beyond its capability, I hear it still can be done. So make sure the monitor can support the various modes before setting them with either of the driver-override settings. When we don't have the monitor drivers on a system the graphics card doesn't know how to send it a signal, and gives generic. With the plasma we usually run digital only, and under digital, it has always brought up the wide aspect even when the monitor inf is not loaded on the system. I presume because the Digital hardware exchanges more information on monitor capability than the standard analog signal can (I am just a software guy, so don't accept that as law). To say anything more, I'd have to know graphics card, drivers loaded, is the monitor listed by name in the "monitor type" section of the monitor tab (advanced display settings) in windows. Version of windows, etc. Good luck! Jeff P.S. watch your electric bill, I hear they are power hungry. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: you have me beat.... I have a mear 48" Plasma I am setting up two of them for Half Life 2 and CS:SOURCE. I WISH! They're for a presentation. I have found HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0002\MODES\1600,1200\mode1="30-96,50-160,+,+" Should I fiddle in here, I wonder...? :eek:
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: you have me beat.... I have a mear 48" Plasma I am setting up two of them for Half Life 2 and CS:SOURCE. I WISH! They're for a presentation. I have found HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0002\MODES\1600,1200\mode1="30-96,50-160,+,+" Should I fiddle in here, I wonder...? :eek:
caractacus wrote: Should I fiddle in here, I wonder...? I never fiddle with the registry... but then I am paranoid. :~ The drivers should have overrides for your default display settings. I have used both ATI and nVidia at various times, I know nVidia best simply because it is ALL that work buys so we have them by the dozens. ControlPanel->Display->Settings->Advanced->Monitor is one of them. The other should be graphics card specific. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)