Re: fglrx 7.12 resolution problem

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Am Sonntag, den 23.12.2007, 22:15 -0700 schrieb Craig White:
> On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:43 -0800, Tod Merley wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 2007 3:24 PM, William Murray <W.J.Murray@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >   Hi all,
> > >         My laptop has a 1400x1050 screen, always been fine. The latest
> > > fglrx only seems to give me up to 1280x1024.
> > > Looking in Xorg.0.log shows:
> > >    (II) fglrx(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
> > > (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@60Hz
> > > (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@60Hz
> > > (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@60Hz
> > > (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
> > > (II) fglrx(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
> > > (II) fglrx(0): #0: hsize: 640  vsize 480  refresh: 60  vid: 16433
> > > (II) fglrx(0): #1: hsize: 800  vsize 600  refresh: 60  vid: 16453
> > > (II) fglrx(0): #2: hsize: 1024  vsize 768  refresh: 60  vid: 16481
> > > (II) fglrx(0): #3: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 60  vid: 16497
> > > (II) fglrx(0): #4: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
> > > (II) fglrx(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
> > > (II) fglrx(0): clock: 108.0 MHz   Image Size:  0 x 0 mm
> > > (II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1400  h_sync: 1448  h_sync_end 1560 h_blank_end
> > > 1688 h_border: 0
> > > (II) fglrx(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1051  v_sync_end 1055 v_blanking:
> > > 1066 v_border: 0
> > >
> > >   Does anyone know what an additional Video Mode is, and how to write an
> > > xorg.conf which will use it?
> > >         Thank you,
> > >                Bill
> 
> > Hi Bill!
> > 
> > I think some answers may be here:
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fglrx
> > 
> > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx
> > 
> > Please take note of all the resources and links mentioned in these.
> > 
> > May God give you strength, you may be doing a bit of "patching" before
> > it is all over.
> ----
> Tod,
> 
> You're becoming like Karl...perhaps you shouldn't offer an answer if you
> don't know.
> 
> To OP (Bill)
> 
> Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> see the section that looks like this...
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720"
> "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> (Note that the 'Modes' section is all on one line but will wrap into
> multiple lines in this e-mail.)
> 
> Add "1400x1050" into that line (make it the first resolution because the
> first listed is the first tried).
> 
> Then see what happens when you log out and log back in...I don't think
> it will take a restart to change it.
> 
> Craig
> 

Hi,

I recently run into the same problem. Bad thing: There is no mode-line
at my xorg.conf anymore (first, I thought "uh, did they get all that
fancy autoconf stuff running?", but now I think its just a .rpm bug or
something like that)

regards

christoph


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