SyncMaster 225BW questions

The display attached to my new Mac Pro is Samsung SyncMaster 225BW which I originaly attached to the Mac with provided Vga adapter. Since the monitor also is DVI capable, I bought DVI connector am now digital to ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT via Leopard and Vista boot camp OS. My question is whether this is better than using Vga adapter, if SM225BW.ICM profle is best for use, and whether Vista "Invalid Display Type" atikmdag error should matter to me. I'm fairly sure that same error was occuring with the VGA adapter and even when I called it a plug and play monitor with default colour scheme. Also, whether 60 Hertz which it seems to default to on this Mac is better rather than 75 Hertz default on previous PC. It looks great to me and best in Leopard.
Details: - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="atikmdag" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">43009</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>42</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-03-06T21:43:13.930Z" />
<EventRecordID>33850</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>VISTAULTIMA</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data />
<Binary>00000000010000002A00000001A800C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

DVI may give a slightly sharper picture. 60Hz if fine. LCDs don't have flicker problems at 60Hz (unlike some CRTs).

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OSX and SyncMaster 225BW

Hello,
I'm using a Samsung SyncMaster 225BW on my PowerMac. I've created a new profile for this screen (Samsung calibrated). So now I have 2 profiles for my screen : "Samsung" and "Samsung calibrated".
Sometimes the first one disappear ! And when it happens, if I choose another profile, it has no effect on what is displayed (color, contrast, ... stay the same).
What is the problem ?
Thank you !

Try the following:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button,
and select the library you want to add from those in the selection window.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note 1: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost.
Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.

MacMini looks terrible with Samsung SyncMaster 225BW

I have the latest Mac working with a Samsung SyncMaster 225 monitor, and the font aliasing look terrible! Is there anything I can do about this? I have gone through the colour calibration and it is slightly improved, but it still looks pretty poor.
I have connected this monitor to a PC and the font display looks good, except for Apple's webpages (such as these discussion forums)! What fonts are used here? And why do these look so poor on this 22" 1680x1050 DVI connected TFT monitor?
Any clue would be appreciated?

Thanks for the reply. I think it is half and half, the problem is both Apple and the Samsung. I believe the graphics adapter (Intel GMA 950) in the MacMini is pretty poor and what you said about Apple's font smoothing... and I think the actual Samsung panel is somehow not good with this adapter.
I tried the MacMini on an NEC 21" and it looked better, and I also tried it on a BenQ 24" and this was pretty good. I also have a iMac 24" and whatever panel they use in that, the fonts, etc looks pretty **** good!
So there must be something going on with the Samsung 225BW and the Mini itself! (Although, to be honest, my NEC 1770NX 17" LCD monitor is not giving that good a display at the moment!)
Is there a way of updating the driver for this Samsung (or this NEC 1770NX) monitor?! Are we all stuck with whatever driver the Mac uses when it detects the display?

Connecting a second monitor to a iMac27

I have a problem with my new iMac27 displaying through a second monitor.
The second display monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster 225BW.
I 'm using an Apple Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter cable out of the iMac and connecting to the second display via an HDMI cable to a DVI-HDMI adaptor.
When I go into Monitor Settings it shows the second monitor okay but there is no display showing on the Samsung monitor.
To test the cables and setup I connected the same cable setup into my MacAir laptop and the display shows up okay on the second monitor confirming there is nothing wrong with the connectors.
Can anyone kindly help?

for me this almost sounds like it could be a damaged mini display port on your imac. normally attaching a second monitor is just plug&play. and since you say OS X is correctly recognizing the display, this could be MDP/graphic card issue. is the imac still under warranty? if so, you might wanna call the apple support and if they know nothing then you will probably have to give your imac into repair

Raw foto's yellow in Lightroom 4.1

Opening my raw files in Ligthroom makes them yellow. Many people on the internet are facing this problem. But nobody seems to know the solution yet. Can somebody help me? Exporting my yellow files from LR tot Photoshop Elements gives them back their right colors.
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Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 225BW
I have the trail version of LR. It seems to be nice software but....
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Your monitor profile is likely corrupted. Try this to confirm: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2008/12/28/corrupted-monitor-profile/
If that solves it, then recalibrate your monitor properly using a hardware calibration tool.

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Hi japamac,
Monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 225BW.
Have tried power on/off switch. Same problem each time. (although I hooked it to a PC with no problems!)
I have noticed a few times a small dialogue box appears switching between 'Analogue and Digital' as if the monitor can't decide which signal it is getting on the first start.
Lots of console messages, but I have no idea how to interpret them!
It's not really a major problem as the monitor always works on the second start, but I have been getting a lot of Kernel crashes lately I would like to try to isolate the problem if possible!
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there seems to be still problems with 16:10 monitors and www.Zattoo.com (germany) with Flash Player 11 (none IE) in fullscreen mode.
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Samsung SyncMaster 225BW (Digital)
Monitor ID
SAM0255
Model
SyncMaster
Monitor Type
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Week 6 / 2007
Max. Visible Display Size
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Picture Aspect Ratio
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Horizontal Frequency
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Maximum Pixel Clock
170 MHz
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2.20
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Active-Off
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http://remixshare.com/dl/aqdmj/DxDiag_20110923.zip

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http://zattoo.com/view#das-vierte
http://zattoo.com/view#zdf (HIQ)
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http://zattoo.com/view#imusic1
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I hope you can use all 5 channels for testing:
http://zattoo.com/en/tv-channels?country=us

Problem printing with Lightroom using Vista

I just recently upgraded my XP system to a Vista 64 bit system. I print
digital photos using Adobe Lightroom 1.4. With my XP system, I had a
good match between my calibrated monitor (NEC 2690) and my printer (HP
B9180) working in the ProPhoto RGB color space using LR. I use ICC profiles (mostly HP Advanced Photo Paper) and let the Lightroom application manage the color. With Vista, I've lost my match. Skin tones look great on my monitor and now print with a red tint. A blue sky prints with a purple cast. I tried Lightroom Beta 2 but no difference. I'm using NEC's SpectraView II calibration software which is 64 bit compatible.
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I have an X-Fi Platinum and the two RCA inputs on the front panel don't work. I know the front panel is working as the head phone jack works. When I look in the recording properties Aux2 isn't even there. It worked when I first installed the card and I'm not sure when it stopped working. I just installed the latest drivers today and that didn't fix it.
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Can somebody help me. This is very annoying as I'm trying to record from some analog devices like video game consoles and a record player. I need to fix this. I am running Windows XP SP2 and my specs are listed below:
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New to Arch(64), with a few questions about Xorg and more

Hello and Happy New Year everyone,
I'm a user that has just recently decided to try and switch to Linux as the main OS for all things that don't concern gaming. I've been using the "server side" of Linux at work for a couple years now, but when it comes to its desktop part I consider myself not fully competent yet. Under recommendation of a friend I decided to give Arch a shot, and I can say that it really suits my philosophy on how an OS should be like.
I have a few issues I'm currently struggling with that I couldn't seem to solve by looking on my own: as they are mostly minor and shortly described, I thought about packing them up in one single thread to avoid making too many. I've used i686 as testing grounds and am now using x86_64, but most of my problems apply to both.
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- (32/64) I'm using MPlayer with libass to watch my favourite anime, but sometimes MPlayer freezes up, forcing me to xkill it. Disabling ASS embedded subs yields error message 11, something about unsufficient resources. Disabling subs entirely prevents MPlayer from crashing. Oh, the errors only happen on specific points of certain videos, and all the videos work just fine under WinXP with MPC or VLC.
- (32/64) Why do anti-aliased fonts under Linux still look so bad, even though I installed the appropriate packages suggested in the wiki? I don't mind disabling anti-aliasing entirely and just using Verdana, but is there some trick to it besides setting sub-pixel hinting under rclick->settings->user interface?
- (32/64) My SBLive might be 5.1, but I'm only using the front connector as I use either two stereo speakers or headphones all the time. But the volume setting in applications (such as MPlayer) seems to affect the PCM meter of ALSA's mixer, putting it over 0 dB gain and generating sound distortion.
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- [SOLVED] (32/64) The first obstacle I came across was that I couldn't set my screen refresh any higher than 60Hz when I actually wanted 75Hz: I solved this by setting the vertical refresh to 76.0-76.0 in xorg.conf. However, for some reason this setting doesn't stick on reboot: I have to log in and manually run rclick->System->NVIDIA X Server Settings for it to apply.
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- [SOLVED] (64 only) Although I can hear sound in just about every application, the 64 bit version of Pidgin doesn't "ring" on received messages even though the associated option is enabled.
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Last edited by Akaraxle (2009-01-03 21:25:43)

xisal wrote:
Take a look into /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi. This works with portuguese layout:
<snip>
The file did not exist, so I created it and changed "pt" to "it". Thanks a bunch, that fixed it!
Try SMPlayer.
Ah, I'd rather not involve Qt. Besides, isn't SMPlayer simply a frontend to Mplayer (who already has GMplayer integrated into it, IIRC)?
Mikko777 wrote:
Why would you want to use 75Hz with lcd display?
Does it make a difference?
On my monitor, from my point of view, it appears to make a difference. It's that simple
azleifel wrote:In gmplayer Preferences -> Audio -> (assuming alsa selected) -> Configure driver and change the mixer channel to something other than PCM, e.g. Master.
For all the three combos, I have "driver default" selected. The other option is "default"; I tried to manually type "Master" into the mixer channel field, but then gmplayer's windows and my Xfce taskbar started blinking, so I knew I had just "crossed streams".
Regarding NVIDIA X Server Settings, running "usr/bin/nvidia-settings --load-config-only" at login is the only way to apply the settings "automatically".
I've slapped that on my ~/.xinitrc before "exec startxfce4". Thanks in advance, going to test it now!
About the refresh and non-decorated windows issues (which *appears* to be solved after I've wiped the xfce-session cache), I've been thinking: could they somehow be related the login manager I've chosen, SLIM?
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Last edited by Akaraxle (2009-01-03 09:43:02)

Early 2008 Video Card Replacement Question

BACKGROUND
Hardware Overview:
Model Name:                       Mac Pro
Model Identifier:                  MacPro3,1
Processor Name:                  Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:                  2.8 GHz
Number of Processors:         2
Total Number of Cores:        8
L2 Cache (per Processor):     12 MB
Memory:                               10 GB
Bus Speed:                            1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version:                MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system):          1.25f4
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT:part number 630-9898
Chipset Model:        NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Type:                       GPU
Bus:                         PCIe
Slot:                         Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width:      x16
VRAM (Total):           512 MB
Vendor:                    NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:                 0x0611
Revision ID:              0x00a2
ROM Revision:          3233
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution:                       1920x 1200 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:                      32-BitColor (ARGB8888)
SyncMaster:
Resolution:                       1920x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth:                      32-BitColor (ARGB8888)
I run one XP drive for games (primarily Flight Simulators) and music/video (CD/DVD) conversion (Danisoft/SlyFox). Mostly stuff that I have yet to find an equivalent that will run on Mac OS. I run one drive with Lion: MSOffice for Mac, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, etc (main use drive). I run one drive with Snow Leopard: still have some stuff that requires Rosetta but is little used. (Thinking about creating a Snow Leopard partition on my Lion drive and using my current Snow Leopard drive for additional storage.) I run one drive thatis purely storage. Everything is backedup to a 2TB Time Capsule using Time Machine. Op systems also backed up to Hitachi 2TB G-Drive using Carbon CopyCloner as well as all important files backed up there as well.
Video card failed. Ifixed it using the ‘bake it in the oven’ trick. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7um_hZYom4) However, still thinking about replacing the card. There are three Apple part numbers foravailable/comparable video cards.
630-9898 – This is the part number ofthe card currently installed. Best pricefound is $586.37
661-4642 – This card is listed as newwith no choke. Best price found is$242.00.
661-4854 – This card is listed as new‘with Choke’. Best price found is$246.00.
Then, I see where some are replacingthe NVIDIA cards with ATI’s.
5770 – $249.00 from Apple.
5870 – $449.00 from Apple.
QUESTION
Based on my current gaming on the XPdrive and the primary use of the Mac OS drives being general purpose (with moreand more getting into iPhoto and iMovie), what are the feelings of the community on which replacement vid card to purchase? (Note: To date I have not had any issues with noise or smoothness using the 8800. But who knows what I might want to do in the future and I want to be prepared as best Ican without spending the $1500 on that really high end card.)
TIA

You should look at those Apple version of the ATI Radeon 5770 and 5780 video cards. They are the current mac pro cards but will work in 2008's.
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External screen resolution "defaults" to low-rez (T510, docked; Samsung SyncMaster 730b monitor)

I have a T510 Thinkpad with docking station (Windows XP) with Samsung SyncMaster 730b monitor. Every time I start up, it defaults to low resolution and I need to manually increase the screen resolution. Is there a way to make the default setting for the external monitor is high-resolution?
Thanks!

hey ct-user,
it is hard to say if this is caused by the external monitor or by the docking station.
try having the the external monitor connected to the T510 and see if it "saves" the resolution that was previously set.
also, test the external monitor on a different laptop and see if the same issue occurs.
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Hi, im close to placing an order for a mini (I use a 24" Imac in work) and want a 24" display for my work at home.
I have seen 2 possible displays Dell 2408 (16:10, 1920 x 1200) and the dell 2409 (16:9, 1920 x 1080).
My questions are:
1. can the I mac support these pixel dimensions 'natively'? so that I dont get any distortion/squashing etc?
2. can it support 24" at all, as the spec on the apple store says 22 & 23" monitors are to be used - in which case would I be better off with one that size?
Thanks
Ger

The Intel Mini supports 1920 x 1200 natively. That's what I'm running on my 24" Samsung SyncMaster 245bw.
The actual size in inches doesn't matter: it's the pixel dimensions that count.

Samsung SyncMaster 2043NWX

Hi just got today a TFT Samsung SyncMaster 2043NWX in order to use as a external monitor with my Mac Airbook. My question is, how can I disable the macbook to not show anything in the Display and only have the TFT showing the image. At the moment, I have both the TFT and the Mac displaying what I am doing which is a bit confunsing. Is there a FN + other key to only show the external TFT like the PCs do?
thanks

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I have just bought a new SyncMaster 940MW tv/Monitor and a new Mac Mini. They work great together and I have set the monitor at 1440x900, which gives the best quality image, but everytime I restart the Mac or wake it from sleep the monitor size resets and I have to go into the System Preferences and even thought it still says 1440x900, I have to swith to another size then switch back to 1440x900 for the screen to resize and go crisp again.
Why is this happening and is there anything I can do to fix it at one size.

Hi there I've just read your message, though this is of no help whatsoever I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions. I'm looking to replace my emac with a new intel macmini and also the exact same samsung 940MW tv/monitor that you own.
• Have you remedied the resolution problems you've been having?
• How easy to set up with OSX is this monitor? I've looked through the instruction manual off the website it makes no mention of resoultion settings. Is this done on the mac and does the signal fill the screen correctly or does the monitor stretch enlarge or crop the signal automatically?
Thanks sorry i couldn't help.
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