The number of pixels in a given display or image, representing the smallest physical unit of display. One individual pixel represents a single colour value, and when combined, create a displayed image. Usually written as (width x height).
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Does a low-profile graphics card exist that can do dual monitor VGA output to 2048x1152 resolution? [closed]
I have a 23" Samsung monitor for my Dell Vostro 220s machine.
Unfortunately, the supplied graphics card cannot meet the top resolution over VGA.
My requirements therefore are:
Low-profile PCIe card
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What is the benifit of High-Resolution on a Notebook Display? [closed]
I've recently been reading some articles and some discussion going on around the MacBook Pro i5 and i7.
Some people had said that they wanted to purchase the 15" over the 13" just because of the ...
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Set resolution of unattached display in OS X?
I have an HDTV that I'm hooking up via DVI to HDMI from my Mac mini. In my struggle to eliminate overscan I managed to set the screen resolution to something not supported by the tv. How do I change ...
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Running a 2048 x 1152 monitor on a Dell Vostro 220s with HD3450 video card
I recently bought a new monitor which has a resolution of 2048 x 1152.
However, this resolution is not on in the options list.
I have tried installing ATI Catalyst but to no avail.
I am running the ...
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How do I keep windows XP from automatically changing the screen resolution?
I have an Asus EEEBox (EB202, intel GMA 950) hooked up to my 1080p TV (DVI->HDMI cable). I use it to watch standard definition movies and TV shows.
I prefer to run at 1280x720 so that I can see ...
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problem in installing ubuntu
I have a hp pavilion dv6000 notebook. I installed windows 7 in it. It worked fine for six months. Now there is some problem in the graphic card or something. My screen olution is set to something 600 ...
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Cannot set 32bit colordepth at max resolution
I have a Dell Latitude D830 which has a 1920x1200 display and a Nvidia Quadro 140M graphics card. It runs windows XP professional German with SP3. When I have a 2nd monitor attached an I have both ...
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Macbook Pro 13“ + KVM + 24” LCD limited to 1920x1080 and I need 1920x1200
My Macbook Pro (unibody, mid 2009, 13") supports the 1920x1200 resolution of my screen, using the VGA display port adapter, but when I connect that through a simple USB + VGA KVM, the resolution ...
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How do I find out my screen resolution from a shell script?
How do I find out my screen resolution from a shell script?
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How do I stop panning on a monitor that supports a specific resolution?
I've been battling this for a few days now. Any and all help is appreciated.
I have a planar monitor with a native res of 1280x1024. At one point, I had used PowerStrip to override "something" and ...
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Resolution 1920 x 1080 is not available for external monitor
I've just bought myself a nice external monitor for my laptop. My laptop's screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1080. The maximum resolution listed for my graphics card is 2048x1536. However when I plug ...
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web camera resolution
How do I find out what max resolution etc my integrated web camera supports?
I'd like to get the information from the actual machine.
In the event the internet has to be the source, I've got a ...
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Getting 2560x1600 out of an ATI Radeon HD 4670 on Windows 7
Greetings,
I've got a Dell Studio XPS 1640 laptop (with an ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card) running Windows 7, and just bought a Dell 3007HPC 30-inch monitor for it. I'm trying to figure out how to ...
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Mac OS X screen resolutions
I have a Mac Mini, the previous generation, and I'm running dual screen on it however, due to circumstances, I am using it with a 17" and a 19" screen which is not ideal. Does anyone know of anyway I ...
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Lenovo ThinkPad T410s dual monitor resolution
I have a couple of questions about the Lenovo ThinkPad 410s and its dual external monitor support.
When the T410s is connected to two external displays, what resolutions can it support on the two ...
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Why aren't there many monitors with higher than 1920x1080 resolution? [closed]
I haven been shopping around for monitors and it seems that everything from 19" to 24" have a max resolution at 1920x1080. Is there some technical reason for this or is that just how it happens to be.
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Acer 24" screen - maximum resolution of 640 x 480?
I have had dual screen for quite a long time - a 17" laptop and 24" Acer monitor (V243HL). Over a week ago it was working perfectly. However I have just got back from a week long holiday to find that ...
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VMWare all resolutions displayed full screen HOWTO
I installed Windows XP under VMWare.
I have full HD screen. When I enter the full screen mode, the resolution will be adapted (there is a VMWARE SVGA II card)
If I change the resolution to 800x600, I ...
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Cannot set recommended resolution to monitor
I got new monitor hp la2205 with recomended resolution 1680 x 1050
But when I'm trying to set resolution via display properties , the option 1680 x 1050 does not appear in list of modes
Graphics ...
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How to change screen resolution of VNC server without restarting it?
Is it possible to change the resolution of the viewer specified during starting of the vnc server with the geometry command line argument? I have a vncserver configured for a wide screen monitor but I ...
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Manually configure monitor resolution in Fedora Core 13?
Is there any way to manually configure the monitor resolution in Fedora Core 13? Right, now my HP f2105 won't go past 800x600.
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Windows XP doesn't remember screen resolution settings
I bought a new Samsung to replace my old CRT. I set it to work at 1900x1600 but every time I reboot it starts at 1024x768.
The monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster P2070 and I already tried to install the ...
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How to change virtual screen resolution on Ubuntu (connecting via VNC without real display connected)?
I have an Ubuntu server with no physical access to it, only via ssh/vnc.
It is stuck on a 1680x1050 resolution and in the system display settings the menus are disabled since there is no detected ...
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Is it possible to assign the Windows 7 detect resolution function to a hotkey?
I recently got a new 27" monitor that runs at 1920 x 1080. It's shared, via a KVM switch, between my wife's computer and mine. It has a bit of a problem switching between computers now, that it ...
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Relation between LCD best resolution and actual font size (pixel)
Where can we find a table with LCD size and best resolution? Like this wiki page. It's good, but when I only know the LCD monitor is 22", it's hard to find what exactly resolution should I use.
Also, ...
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Mac, VNC and multiple monitors
I asked a similar question here before but apparently I wasn't as clear as I had expected by the responses. That said, I'll try again.
I have a Mac Pro with quad monitors which I would like to ...
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Mac OS X script to change display resolution
Is it possible to change display resolution in Mac OS X?
If so, how?
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Can HDMI cable + MDP to HDMI Adaptor support 2048 x 1152 on my Macbook Pro 13in (Mid 2010)?
I'm wondering if I should go with HDMI + MDP2HDMI adapter to get the sound along with video or go with DVI + DVI adaptor... I have the Dell SP2309W which has a resolution of 2048x1152.
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Linux Mint 9 On HP Mini 110 - External Monitor Stuck At Native Resolution Of Netbook Running @ 1024 X 600
As you'll have gathered from the title of my post I have a HP Mini 110 on which I have recently installed Linux Mint 9.
The native resolution of the netbook is 1024 X 600 and when I connect my ...
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Nvidia video settings on Ubuntu get reset back to 1024x768 when logging back in
In making changes to video settings in Ubuntu I tried the following in Gnome:
gksudo nvidia-settings
Resolution is set to 1920x1080 and applied, voila screen looks fine.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf is ...
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video card to support one large display with 4 rotated monitors
I have four 2560 x 1600 monitors. My goal is to have one huge display that windows thinks is just one monitor, at a resolution of 6400 x 2560.
I've found video cards that support rotating the ...
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Monitor Resolution
I have a Compaq Evo N600c laptop. This document says the max resolution of my monitor is higher than the 1024x768 it currently is set at.
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Enabling a higher default terminal resolution for FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
At the moment, I run a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE installation, and everything is absolutely swimming. Generally speaking, any developing I do on it is done on my Windows machine through Putty. This works ...
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Getting my desired resolution and refresh rate in Ubuntu
My problem:
I cannot get my desired resolution and refresh rate in Ubuntu (10.04, Lucid). I want to run at the best my poor monitor can, which in Windows (XP through 7) is 1152*864 with a refresh ...
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Samsung Monitor Bx2450 resolution
I just bought a Samsung BX2450 LED monitor. I use a 1920x1080 resolution at 60Hz which works fine, but it's not using the full display.
There is a 1cm border on the top/bottom and a 1.5cm border on ...
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how to increase resolution of linux virtual box guest
I've got ubuntu installed on virtual box, on a windows7 host
The default resolution for ubuntu is 800 x 600, how can I increase this?
My windows7 resolution is high, this makes my virtual box ...
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can I output 1080p onto an external monitor
I have an hp envy 14 and It has a native resolution of 1600 * 900. I am trying to buy a monitor which its native resolution is 1080p. can my laptop output 1080p to the external monitor?
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Dell Latitude D830 WQXGA support
I've got a Dell Latitude D830 laptop and its docking station, with Vista Enterprise running. I'd like to connect a HP LP3065 30" display externally, but can't see the higher resolutions in the ...
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OS X: Recovering from an incompatible screen resolution
I clicked on a screen resolution in OS X that was incompatible with my monitor and/or monitor cable. I can restart with the shift key held down and boot into a usable resolution, but if I restart in ...
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Can't save screen resolution setting
My screen resolution in windows and previous version of Ubuntu (9.04) was 1152 x 864.
But in Ubuntu 10.04 it gives me an option of 1024 x 786 and 1360 x 786.
I have some how managed to add 1152x684 ...
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LCD monitor: resolution vs screen size
I am having bit of confusion about resolution vs screen size. Say, I have a 20" monitor and a 30" monitor both having 1920X1080. Does this mean that both have an equal number of pixels which intern ...
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Why can't I get the right screen resolution in Ubuntu?
My screen resolution in windows and previous version of ubuntu (9.04) was 1152 x 864.
But in Ubuntu 10.04 it gives me an option of 1024 x 786 and 1360 x 786, how can I change it to 1152 x 864 ?
Is ...
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Running VISTA on H/P w/ flat panel TV for monitor. Everything perfect until I downloaded a few items
The problem: I am running VISTA on my H/P pc, which is connected to a Samsung flat panel TV. Recently downloaded some VISTA updates and Adobe FLASH. Now the TV, which is my monitor, has ...
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Font size in windows 7
I have monitor LG Flatron W2243S. I've tried to set screen resolution to 1440x900 but picture is very blurry. Only clear resolution was 1920x1080. But then, font is very small.
I've set up font size ...
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WinXP: How to enforce 1920x1080px for LG E2350V and AXLE3D NVIDIA GF 5500 128M
I recently bought an LG Flatron E2350V, an LED Monitor with 1920x1080px.
My old AGP card could not handle the resolution so I bought a new one:
AXLE3D NVIDIA GF 5500 128M DDR1 128bits
However I ...
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What to do if a window is bigger than the screen resolution?
I'm using Windows 7 on a 8.9' monitor with 1280x768 screen resolution. Using the might of arithmetics, I'm able to determine that my dpi (actually ppi) should be 167. Win7 is really helpful in that it ...
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Screen resolution bigger than 1366 x 768
I'm trying to take a screenshot of the MSN messenger window for a print, but I need it to be 2693 x 1772 pixels.
What can I do to make the screenshot this big? Or simply: how can I make my screen ...
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What advantage does a 2400x600 dpi printer have over a 1200x1200 dpi printer?
I've seen laser printers with a resolutions of 1200x1200 dpi and, strangely, 2400x600 dpi.
As the measure is dots per inch, not Kdots on a page or something (where a higher vertical resolution might ...
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how to force 1440x900 resolution on acer al1702w lcd monitor
i have acer al1702w lcd monitor in my office..
somehow i restarted the system using the reset button as the os stoped responding..
since then the 1440x900 resolution option in the display settings ...
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display resolution 1366x768 for programming?
How is programming on a 15.6 inch laptop using this resolution? Unfortunately, I'm finding that all the laptops I'm considering use this low vertical resolution and I'm worried it'll affect my ...
