1440x900 Dell Latitude D600

stival

Hi everybody:

To improve my home office work station, I purchased a nice and great Philips external 200WP monitor (20 inch LCD widescreen monitor ) that I have connected with a DELL Latitude D600 laptop. To fully benefit of the widescreen resolution, I had to update the driver for the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 AGP (0x4C66) for the DELL support site (file:R113575.exe) driver version 8.20.0.0…

With this driver version, I could finally set the screen resolution to 1680x1050, which is the Philips recommended settings for that widescreen monitor. It works perfectly.

However, after one day working with that screen, my eyes got tired in the evening, since with that resolution setting, the items and fonts are rather small, and view attention is required!

Therefore, I would like to set a lower resolution for that widescreen (16:10 format), and thought about setting the resolution to 1440x900…

First, can anyone give some advices regarding the performances of a 20inch widescreen monitor set at 1440x900, instead of the perfect resolution of 1680x1050?

Second, my updated ATI Mobilty Radeon 9000 driver, while have listed the 1680x1050 mode, does not list the 1440x900 screen resolution mode! Surfing through various internet forums, it seems that the Omega driver for the ATI Radeon 9000: Omega Drivers v3.8.252 allows the 1440x900 resolution mode.

I already downloaded the Omega driver file (rad_w2kxp_omega_38252_7z.exe), but I am hesitating to install it…

Questions:
1.- Does that Omega driver effectively support the 1440x900 resolution, with the DELL Latitude D600?
2.- Is it easy (link to any procedure) to delete that Omega driver and go back the update ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Driver from DELL in the case anything goes wrong?
3.- Any special precaution and/or caution for using the Omega driver on the DELL Latitude D600?

Since I am a freebie in this field, I am in advance greatly thankful for anyone who can help me. Thanks, many thanks…

temeteus82

Hi there and welcome to DriverHeaven!

1. Yeah it should support it. Remember to set the extended desktop mode on.
2. just run the uninstaller like any other software
3. remember to uninstall the old driver first then reboot and install omega's drivers...

stival

Thanks for the advice...
I installed the Omega driver, and it worked perfectly. However, the 1440x900 screen resolution settings on the Philips 200WP widescreen did results in a low quality display. With whichever settings for the 1440x900 (which is a 16:10 image ratio), I did not manage to fill the entire screen! I suppose that this is a hardware issue rather then a software, driver issue!

temeteus82

the issues is that it's not the native resolution on the screen. LCD has the problem that when you are running lower resolution than the native the image quality goes down.

stival

Guess that means in other words that as it is a hardware issue, there is no fix for my problem :-(

temeteus82

There is, I think you can run the bigger resolution screen in extended desktop mode and use the bigger resolution.