XOrg configuration for Samsung LA32A450C1

This guy nailed it. I had only just found the manual page for my Samsung 32" LCD TV and was still googling for a tool to find the modeline.

I've only added the option to turn off nvidia's logo to his X configuration. Too good:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "SamsungTV"
ModelName "Samsung LCD TV"
ModeLine "1360x768@60" 85.8 1360 1440 1552 1792 768 771 777 795 +hsync +vsync
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIAVideocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "ModeValidation" "DFP-0: NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"
Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE"
#### 100 DPI
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "100 x 100"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIAVideocard0"
Monitor "SamsungTV"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
##### Native Res Samsung 1360x768@60
Modes "1360x768@60" "1280x720" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

ATI driver (fglrx) on Ubuntu Linux

It was a fruitless 3-day battle: I could not get the ATI RV370 (Radeon X300) on my desktop Dell to work with Xorg. I tried the pre-packaged fglrx driver, I tried rebuilding it with modules-assistant, I tried installing the latest version from ATI's support site.

The kernel module would load fine but X would core dump after initialising the driver, DRI could not be enabled or X would freeze whenever any OpenGL application was run. I went through heaps of support forums and saw many users having similar problems.

In the end I got myself a nVidia 7300LE and, let me tell you, it was the best $AU70 I have ever spent. I simply wanted to be able to watch DVB-T on my computer, so this low-end card was more than enough.

The installation was effortless and it worked on the first try, even with "Composite" enabled; it's true that it didn't update the device description on xorg.conf but I did that manually just to be neat.

I should have given up on ATI years ago after my all-in-wonder died on me shortly after a year.