On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 05:17, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, jludwig wrote:
>> is really bugging me. I have ATI RADEON 7200 card and Sun 21"
>> monitor which Sony GDM-20E20. Here is the problem...
>>
>> In the windows manager I can set my resolution to 1600x1200@60. It works
>> great. But when I reboot the box both during "start up" and
"login screen"
>> screen goes blank. Since I set to do "auto login" I do get the desktop
but
>> at 1152x864. This happens every time. I manually have to change the
>> resolution back to 1600x1200. I am lost. Please Help.
>>
>> Here is /etc/X11/xorg.conf......
>>
>> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier "single head configuration"
>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Files"
>>
>> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
>> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is
normally
>> # no need to change the default.
>> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
>> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
>> # the X server to render fonts.
>> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>> FontPath "unix/:7100"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> Load "dbe"
>> Load "extmod"
>> Load "fbdevhw"
>> Load "glx"
>> Load "record"
>> Load "freetype"
>> Load "type1"
>> Load "dri"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>
>> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
>> # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
>> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
>> # Option "XkbDisable"
>> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
>> # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
>> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
>> # Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
>> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
>> # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
>> #
>> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
>> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
>> # Option "XkbLayout" "de"
>> # or:
>> # Option "XkbLayout" "de"
>> # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
>> #
>> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
>> # control keys, use:
>> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
>> # Or if you just want both to be control, use:
>> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
>> #
>> Identifier "Keyboard0"
>> Driver "keyboard"
>> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> Identifier "Mouse0"
>> Driver "mouse"
>> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>> Identifier "Monitor0"
>> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
>> ModelName "Sony GDM-20SE2T5"
>> HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0
>> VertRefresh 48.0 - 160.0
>> Option "dpms"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Videocard0"
>> Driver "radeon"
>> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
>> BoardName "ATI Radeon 7200"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "Videocard0"
>> Monitor "Monitor0"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Viewport 0 0
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050"
"1280x1024" "1280x960"
>> "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "DRI"
>> Group 0
>> Mode 0666
>> EndSection
>What I don't see here is the amount of video memory available. If the
>window manager decides you don't have enough it will drop to a lower
>resolution.
Never ever put the VideoRam setting in the X server config file.
Snip
I know that, but, I had no idea how much memory the card had and if you
are not familiar with the card how would you know.
jludwig <wralphie(a)comcast.net>