1920x1200 on PS3

Does anyone know how to get WUXGA (1920x1200) to work on a
PS3? I  
just bought a reasonably priced (LG l246W) monitor whose
native  
resolution is 1920x1200 and which supports HDMI. I expected
videomode  
13 to work, but it cuts off about 15% from each side of the
screen  
and about 5% of the top. I tried the widescreen version to
no avail.  
Even 1080P doesn't work properly - the scaling is wrong and
part of  
the screen is cut off (in videomodes 5 and 133). I tried to
play with  
the xorg.conf, but it seems that the various geometrical
parameters  
are ignored by the ps3. Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

Warren Nagourney

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I returned the LG monitor (24", 1920x1200, HDMI) for a
similar BenQ  
model (fp241w) and the latter worked perfectly at 1920x1200
with no  
fiddling. The key is for the monitor to allow 1:1 pixel
mapping  
regardless of the input. The LG didn't allow this with an
HDMI input  
and therefore didn't work well with the PS3, which is too
bad, since  
it is a nice monitor otherwise and is readily available (I
needed to  
mail order the BenQ and had a nightmarish time with the
cretins at  
Fedex).

I found a curious anomaly - in order for the fp241w to work,
one  
needed to use the DVI input (and an HDMI to DVI adaptor or
cable). I  
tried the HDMI input and an HDMI cable which came with the
unit and  
got a blue screen (after using the menu to switch the input
to HDMI).  
This is mysterious, since I thought that the video portions
of DVI  
and HDMI were identical.

I know of only three 24" HDMI monitors with 1920x1200
native  
resolution: the LG, the BenQ and a Dell. I have heard that
the Dell  
requires a (pricey) HDMI to VGA adaptor to work at 1920x1200
(for  
example, the HDFury). So, of the known (to me) monitors, it
appears  
that only the BenQ works well. They are, I believe, all
priced  
similarly.

With a 1920x1200 monitor, the accelerated Xorg and a lean
Window  
Manager (I use Wmaker), PS3 linux is quite usable as a
desktop  
computer. The memory issue still needs to be addressed, but
things  
are tolerable if one doesn't open too many windows (the
first symptom  
of low memory is slow scrolling in a Web browser - I use
Opera, which  
seems much faster than the others in scrolling and
browsing).

Warren Nagourney
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