Florian Burkart wrote:
Hey everybody,
sorry to be bothering you, but I can't get any further by myself. I have
been googling on this for a few hours now.
I just installed FC2 (first time with linux) and am trying to get the
1680x1050 resolution to work. There are plenty of posts about this, and they
all kind of match themselves, so that should be pretty straight forward.
Here is what i put into my xorg.conf:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "dell-i8600"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x800"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x800"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x800"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Device" (I installed the NVidia drivers as well, logo showing up,
so it should be ok...)
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "16:10"
Modeline "1280x800" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835
Modeline "1280x800" 123.38 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840
Modeline "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
Modeline "1680x1050" 188.07 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096
Modeline "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103
Modeline "1680x1050" 256.20 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "dell-i8600"
HorizSync 31.5-100
VertRefresh 30-90
UseModes "16:10"
EndSection
... (other stuff)
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Now, whatever I do, I can only get 1280x800 to work:
- I removed all the 1680x1050 entries -> worked.
- I removed all the 1280x800 entries -> either very low standard vesa
resolution or hang itself up.
- Although man xorg.conf says that the order is determined in subsection
display I switched the order of the two in "Modes" -> nothing happens
Haven't found anyone else with that problem, and it seems to work for a lot
of people, so I am quite confused...
Could someone help me out on this one please?
And while you are it, maybe a short question by the side: how does one
switch resolutions? System settings -> Display shows absolutely wrong
monitor with wrong resolutions and if I choose something it screws xorg.conf
up. So I guess if one configures xorg.conf, the System settings -> Display
option can't be used anymore, right? So the answer would be to switch some
order in the xorg.conf? Thanks...
Have you looked at the logs to see why the 1600 mode doesn't work? Most
often it's a lack of video RAM (too high a resolution with too much
depth).
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