12 April 08 - 15:08MythTV 0.21 fixes openSuse RPMs

I tried to reach the packager of the openSuse MythTV 0.21 rpms as I wanted to know if these where going to be updated with the fixes being rolled into SVN. Well, I got no answer, but after seeing that the packages got continuous updates without an apparent reason I downloaded the source RPM and checked the content. So the veredict is in: the packages contain all the current SVN fixes patches.

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12 April 08 - 15:01Xorg, DVI and the Belinea o.display 2_22" wide

I bought us a Belinea o.display 2_22" wide LCD Monitor a few weeks ago to replace a 15 inch LCD. We mainly use it to watch TV using MythTV. I chose this model as I could get it below 200,- Euro, it had both VGA and DVI inputs, it had a 1600x1050 resolution and 22 inches are a nice size to watch TV.

The VGA connection worked perfectly out of the box using Xorg 7.3 from openSuse 10.3. What did not work was the DVI connection. The maximum resolution I got out was 1280 and this looks awefull on LCD. I got discouraged by the few comments that floated arround in forums. All hinted that the problem seemed to be my nvidia 5100 based card or that I would need a dual link cable to get this setup working. But, as the Monitor came with a single link cable and it seemed to work on Windows XP I concluded that it had to be the drivers of the card.

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