On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 22:00 -0500, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The first time I logged in after installing F8, the background picture covered the entire screen but the top menu bar and bottom task bar only extended about 2/3 the width of the screen and the bottom task bar was not at the bottom of the screen but about 1/2 the way up. > > After playing with the screen resolutions, I have 1152x864@60Hz and the bars extend all the way across the screen and the task bar is at the bottom. > > I have 2 problems: > 1) The 1st 1/2 inch of the screen is missing of the left side which, for some reason is really bugging me. > 2) The resolution I really want is 1280x1024@75Hz. This is a dual boot machine at 1280x1024@75Hz is what I use in Windows > > Can anyone give me some ideas as to why I can't get my desired resolution? > > Below is some info from Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > Thanks, > Steve > > I have an ATI Radeon X800 PCIE graphics card and a generic 20" LCD monitor. > > If I look in my Xorg.0.log file I see that the resolution I want is listed but then I see this line for output DVI-1: > > (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range) > (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) > (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) > > and when it prints out the probed modes for DVI-1, 1280x1024 is not there. A similar thing happens for DVI-0 and this time the reasons given are: > > (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) > (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) > (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) > > However, when the probed modes are printed this line shows up: > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x75.0 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz) > > Near the bottom of the log, it says: > > (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-1 using initial mode 1152x864 > (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 using initial mode 1152x864 > > My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has this in it: > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection ---- change the 'Modes' line (insert "1280x1024" for the first mode) Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" restart X or restart computer if you don't know how to restart X xorg radeon on Fedora 8 doesn't seem to work very well (my experience) You might search last weeks list for commentary on adding Livna and installing kmod-fglrx Craig
