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
